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At times, again, the
picture which we endeavour to present is fuller in
detail, as, for example, in the following description
of a luxurious banquet, which is also from Cicero,1
since he by himself is capable of supplying admirable
examples of every kind of oratorical ornament: “I
seemed to see some entering, some leaving the room,
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some reeling under the influence of the wine, others
yawning with yesterday's potations. The floor was
foul with wine-smears, covered with wreaths half-withered and littered with fishbones.”
1 From the lost pro Gallio.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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