Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 12.10.62

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[62] hic et amplificationibus extollet orationem, et in superlationem quoque erigetur. quae Charybdis tam vorax? et Oceanus medius fidius ipse. nota sunt enim iam studiosis haec lumina. hic deos ipsos in congressum prope suum sermonemque deducet: vos enim Albani tumuli atque luci; vos, inquam, Albanorum obrutae arae, sacrorum popli Romani sociae et aequales. hic iram, hic misericordiam inspirabit, hoc dicente iudex deos ¹ appellabit et flebit et per omnes adfectus tractatus huc atque illuc sequetur nec doceri desiderabit.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[62] Such an orator will also exalt his style by amplification and rise even to hyperbole, as when Cicero ¹ cries,

What Charybdis was ever so voracious!

By the god of truth, even Ocean's self,

etc. (I choose these fine passages as being familiar to the student). It is such an one that will bring down the Gods to form part of his audience or even to speak with him, as in the following,

For on you I call, ye hills and groves of Alba, on you, I say, ye fallen altars of the Albans, altars that were once the peers and equals of the holy places of Rome.

² This is he that will inspire anger or pity, and while he speaks the judge will call upon the gods and weep, following him wherever he sweeps him from one emotion to another, and no longer asking merely for instruction.

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1. hoc dicente iudex deos apellabit et flebit., Madrig: hoc dicente iudet appellavit et flevit, G.

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