Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 12.10.61

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[61] But he whose eloquence is like to some great torrent that rolls down rocks and

disdains a bridge

¹ and carves out its own banks for itself, will sweep the judge from his feet, struggle as he may, and force him to go whither he bears him. This is the orator that will call the dead to life (as, for example, Cicero calls upon Appius Caecus ² ); it is in his pages that his native land itself will cry aloud and at times address the orator himself, as it addresses Cicero in the speech delivered against Catiline in the senate.

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

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[61] at ille, qui saxa devolvat et pontem indignetur et ripas sibi faciat, multus et torrens iudicem vel nitentem contra feret cogetque ire, qua rapiet. hic orator et defunctos excitabit ut Appium Caecum, apud hunc et patria ipsa exclamabit, aliquandoque ut Ciceronem in oratione contra Catilinam in senatu alloquetur.

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1. Verg. Aen. viii. 728.

2. See III. viii. 54.

Cicero in the pro Caclio makes both Appius Caecus and her brother Clodius address Clodia the former rebuking her for her immorality, the latter exhorting her thereto.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 12.10.61

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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