Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.

For the writers of text-books do not forbid it because they regard it as illicit, but because they think it useless. Consequently if its utility be proved, we shall have to employ it for the very reason for which we are now forbidden to do so.

Moreover Demosthenes

v4-6 p.43

turns to address Aeschines in his exordium, [*](de Cor.) while Cicero adopts the same device in several of his speeches, but more especially in the pro Ligario, [*](i. 2.) where he turns to address Tubero.