[56]
No less care must be taken to avoid exciting
any suspicion in this portion of our speech, and we
should therefore give no hint of elaboration in the
exordium, since any art that the orator may employ
at this point seems to be directed solely at the
judge.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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