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There is, however, a dispute as to whether
there are three kinds or more. But it is quite certain that all the most eminent authorities among
ancient writers, following Aristotle who merely substituted the term public for deliberative, have been
content with the threefold division.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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