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There are also those natural instruments which, as
I mentioned above,1 may be further improved by
care, such as voice, lungs and grace of carriage
and movement, all of which are of such importance
[p. 413]
as frequently to give a speaker the reputation for
talent. Our own age has had orators of greater
resource and power, but Trachalus appeared to stand
out above all his contemporaries, when he was speaking. Such was the elect produced by his lofty
stature, the fire of his eye, the dignity of his brow,
the excellence of his gesture, coupled with a voice
which was not almost a tragedian's, as Cicero2
demands that it should be, but surpassed the voice
of all tragedians that I have ever heard.
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