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A powerful effect may be created if to the actual
facts of the case we add a plausible picture of what
occurred, such as will make our audience feel as if
they were actual eyewitnesses of the scene. Such
is the description introduced by Marcus Caelius in
his speech against Antonius. “For they found him
lying prone in a drunken slumber, snoring with all
the force of his lungs, and belching continually,
while the most distinguished of his female companions sprawled over every couch, and the rest of
the seraglio lay round in all directions.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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