[127]
On the
other hand we shall employ cola by preference when
narrating facts, or relax the texture of our periods
by considerable pauses and looser connexions, always
excepting those passages in which narration is
designed for decorative effect and not merely for
the instruction of the audience, as for example the
passage in the Verrines where Cicero1 tells the story
of the Rape of Proserpine: for in such cases a smooth
and flowing texture is required.
1 Verr. IV. xlviii. 106.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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