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On the other hand,
all those embellishments which differ in character
from these are none the less virtues whose importance is such that without them all oratory will be
little less than unintelligible. For how can the judge
be adequately instructed unless lucidity characterise
our performance of the following tasks: explanation,
proposition, promise of proofs, definition, distinction,
exposition of our own opinion, logical conclusion, defence by anticipation, introduction of comparisons or
precedents, disposition and distribution, interruption,
repression of those who interrupt us, antithesis, exculpation and personal attack?
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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