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Cornelius Celsus
seems to have agreed with these early rhetoricians,
for he writes “The orator only aims at the semblance
of truth,” and again a little later “The reward of
the party to a suit is not a good conscience, but victory.” If this were true, only the worst of men
would place such dangerous weapons at the disposal
of criminals or employ the precepts of their art for
the assistance of wickedness. However I will leave
those who maintain these views to consider what
ground they have for so doing.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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