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For my part, I have undertaken the task of moulding the ideal orator, and as my first desire is that he
should be a good man, I will return to those who
have sounder opinions on the subject. Some however identify rhetoric with politics, Cicero1 calls it a
department of the science of politics (and science of
politics and philosophy are identical terms), while
others again call it a branch of philosophy, among
them Isocrates.
1 de Inv. I. v. 6.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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