Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, chapter 3, section 6

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[6] Cicero was right when, in one of his letters to Brutus, he [p. 215] wrote, “Eloquence which evokes no admiration is, in my opinion, unworthy of the name.” Aristotle¹ likewise thinks that the excitement of admiration should be one of our first aims.

But such ornament must, as I have already said,² be bold, manly and chaste, free from all effeminate smoothness and the false hues derived from artificial dyes, and must glow with health and vigour.

1 Rhet. III. ii. 5.

2 In the introduction to this book, 19.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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