Institutio Oratoria

I am ready to admit that such qualities please many, and I feel no surprise that this should

be the case. For any kind of eloquence is pleasing and attractive to the car, and every effort of the voice inspires a natural pleasure in the soul of man; indeed this is the sole cause of those familiar gatherings in the Forum or on the Old Wall, [*]( The agger of Servius Tullius, which served as a promenadec. The nearest modern parallel may be found in the Hyde Park orator. ) so that there is small reason for wonder if any pleader is safe to draw a ring of listeners from the crowd.