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Will any one deny the title
of epideictic to panegyric? But yet panegyrics are advisory in form and frequently discuss the interests
of Greece. We may therefore conclude that, while
there are three kinds of oratory, all three devote
themselves in part to the matter in land, and in
part to display. But it may be that Romans are not
[p. 397]
borrowing from Greek when they apply the title
demonstrative but are merely led to do so because
praise and blame demonstrate the nature of the
object with which they are concerned.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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