Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 12.10.65

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[65]

With him then,

he says,

no mortal will contend, and men shall look upon him as on a god.

¹ It is this force and impetuosity that Eupolis admires in Pericles, this that Aristophanes ² compares to the thunderbolt, this that is the power of true eloquence.

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

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[65] cum hoc igitur nemo mortalium contendet; hunc ut deum homines intuebuntur. hanc vim et celeritatem in Pericle miratur Eupolis, hanc fulminibus Aristophanes comparat, haec est vere dicendi facultas.

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1. A blend of Il. iii. 223 and Od. viii. 173.

2. Aeh. 530.

Then in his wrath Pericles the Olympian lightened and thundered and threw all Greece into confusion.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 12.10.65

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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