[13]
or, again, if the
case is complicated, what order we should adopt,
what evidence or documents of any kind should
be read out in the course of our speech, and what
reserved for a later stage. This gift of arrangement
is to oratory what generalship is to war. The skilled
commander will know how to distribute his forces
[p. 171]
for battle, what troops he should keep back to
garrison forts or guard cities, to secure supplies, or
guard communications, and what dispositions to make
by land and by sea.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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