[107]
Again
in the pro Clueniio1 does not the conversation
between Staienus and Bulbus conduce to speed and
enhance the credibility of the statements ? In
case it should be thought that Cicero did this
without design (quite an incredible supposition in
his case), I would point out that in the Partitiones2
he lays it down that the statement of facts should
be characterised by passages which will charm and
excite admiration or expectation, and marked by
unexpected turns, conversations between persons and
appeals to every kind of emotion.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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