[4]
This view
is derived from Isocrates, if indeed the treatise on
[p. 303]
rhetoric1 which circulates under his name is really
from his hand. He, although far from agreeing
with those whose aim is to disparage the duties of
an orator, somewhat rashly defined rhetoric as
πειθοῦς δημιουργός, the “worker of persuasion”: for
I cannot bring myself to use the peculiar derivative
which Ennius2 applies to Marcus Cethegus in the
phrase suadae medulla, the “marrow of persuasion.”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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