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And
yet Apollodorus is not very far off this definition
when he asserts that the first and all-important task
of forensic oratory is to persuade the judge and lead
his mind to the conclusions desired by the speaker. For
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even Apollodorus makes the orator the sport of fortune by refusing him leave to retain his title if he
fails to persuade.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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