[4]
And to these they
add further examples drawn from the history of
Rome and Greece, enumerating all those who used
their pernicious eloquence not merely against individuals but against whole states and threw an ordered
commonwealth into a state of turmoil or even brought
it to utter ruin; and they point out that for this
very reason rhetoric was banished from Sparta, while
its powers were cut down at Athens itself by the fact
that an orator was forbidden to stir the passions of
his audience.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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