[5]
Is
the exordium necessary or superfluous? should it be
long or short? addressed entirely to the judge or
sometimes directed to some other quarter by the
employment of some figure of speech?1 Should the
statement of facts be concise or developed at some
length? continuous or divided into sections? and
should it follow the actual or an artificial order of
events? The orator will find the answers to all these
questions in the circumstances of the case. So, too,
with the order in which questions should be discussed,
[p. 293]
since in any given debate it may often suit one party
best that such and such a question come up first,
1 i.e. by the figure known as apostrophe, in which the orator diverts his speech from the judge to some other person: see IX. ii. 38.
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