[114]
Again does he not throughout the
whole of his statement excite the warmest indignation at the misfortunes of Philodamus1 and move
[p. 113]
us even to tears when he speaks of his punishment
and describes, or rather shows us as in a picture,
the father weeping for the death of his son and the
son for the death of his father?
1 ib. i. 30
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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