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I say nothing of Protagoras, who
held that oratory was to be divided only into the
following heads: question and answer, command and
entreaty, or as he calls it εὐχωλή. Plato in his
Sophist1 in addition to public and forensic oratory
introduces a third kind which he styles προσομιλητική,
which I will permit myself to translate by “conversational.” This is distinct from forensic oratory and
is adapted for private discussions, and we may regard
it as identical with dialectic.
1 222 o.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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