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As for
Cicero, he has often proclaimed1 the fact that he
owed less to the schools of rhetoric than to the
walks of Academe: nor would he ever have developed
such amazing fertility of talent, had he bounded his
genius by the limits of the forum and not by the
frontiers of nature herself.
But this leads me to another question as to which
school of philosophy is like to prove of most service
to oratory, although there are only a few that can be
said to contend for this honour.
1 Or. iii 12
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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