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Does not the orator discuss the question whether
livid spots and swellings on the body are symptomatic of ill-health or poison? And yet that is a
question for the qualified physician. Will he not
deal with measurements and figures? And yet we
must admit that they form part of mathematics. For
my part I hold that practically all subjects are
under certain circumstances liable to come up for
treatment by the orator. If the circumstances do
not occur, the subjects will not concern him.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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