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I am not ignorant of the generally prevailing custom, nor have I forgotten those who sit by
our store-chests and provide weapons for the pleader:
I know too that the Greeks did likewise: hence
the name of pragmaticus which was bestowed on
such persons. But I am speaking of an orator, who
owes it as a duty to his case to serve it not merely
by the loudness of his voice, but by all other means
that may be of assistance to it.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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