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What more
would any man have seen who had actually entered
the room? So, too, we may move our hearers to
tears by the picture of a captured town. For the
mere statement that the town was stormed, while
no doubt it embraces all that such a calamity involves, has all the curtness of a dispatch, and fails
to penetrate to the emotions of the hearer.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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