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So also according to general opinion Phryne
was saved not by the eloquence of Hyperides, admirable as it was, but by the sight of her exquisite
body, which she further revealed by drawing aside
her tunic. And if all these have power to persuade, the end of oratory, which we are discussing,
cannot adequately be defined as persuasion.
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