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The second
kind is deliberative, the third forensic oratory. All
other species fall under these three genera: you will
not find one in which we have not to praise or
blame, to advise or dissuade, to drive home or refute
a charge, while conciliation, narration, proof, exaggeration, extenuation and the moulding of the minds
of the audience by exciting or allaying their passions, are common to all three kind of oratory.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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