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Still, theatrical effects of the
kind we are discussing can be dispelled by the
power of eloquence. Cicero provides most admirable
examples of the way in which this may be done both
in the pro Rabirio1 where he attacks the production
in court of the portrait of Saturninus in the most
dignified language, and in the pro Vareno where he
launches a number of witticisms against a youth
whose wound had been unbound at intervals in the
course of the trial.
1 cp. Pro Rab. ix 24.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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