Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 10.1.70

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[70] Indeed, those critics are no fools who think the speeches attributed to Charisius ¹ were in reality written by Menander. But I consider that he shows his power as an orator far more clearly in his comedies; since assuredly we can find no more perfect models of every oratorical quality than the judicial pleadings of his Epitrepontes, ² Epicleros and Locri, or the declamatory speeches in the Psophodes, Nomothetes. and Hypobolimaeus.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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Institutio Oratoria Perseus (Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, editor. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.) — 10.1.70 focus

[70] nec nihil profecto viderunt, qui orationes, quae Charisii nomini addicuntur, ¹ a Menandro scriptas putant. sed mihi longe magis orator probari in opere suo videtur, nisi forte aut illa ² iudicia, quae Epitrepontes, Epicleros, Locroe habent, aut meditationes in Psophodee, Nomothete, Hypobolimaeo non omnibus oratoriis numeris sunt absolutae.

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1. A contemporary of Demosthenos; his speeches have not survived, but were considered to resemble those of Lysias.

2. The greater portion of the Epitrepontes has been recovered from a papyrus. The other plays are lost. The names may be translated:

The Arbitrators,

The Heiress,

The Locri,

The Timid Man,

The Lawgiver,

The Changeling.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 10.1.70

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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