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The
best authorities hold that there are some things in
oratory which require proof and others which do not,
a view with which I agree. Some on the other hand,
as for instance Celsus, think that the orator will not
speak on any subject unless there is some question
involved in it; but the majority of writers on rhetoric
are against him, as is also the threefold division of
oratory, unless indeed to praise what is allowed to be
honourable and to denounce what is admittedly disgraceful are no part of an orator's duty.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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