Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 2.13.8

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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[8] For my part above all things

This I enjoin and urge and urge anew

Verg. Aen. iii. 436.

that in all his pleadings the orator should keep two things constantly in view, what is becoming and what is expedient. But it is often expedient and occasionally becoming to make some modification in the time-honoured order. We see the same thing in pictures and statues. Dress, expression and attitude are frequently varied.

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

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[8] equidem id maxime praecipiam ac repetens iterumque iterumque monebo: res duas in omni actu spectet orator, quid deceat et quid expediat. expedit autem saepe mutare ex illo constituto traditoque ordine aliqua et interim decet, ut in statuis atque picturis videmus variari habitus, vultus, status. nam recti quidem corporis vel minima gratia est;

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