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On the other hand
it is at times possible to give the force of an exordium
to other portions of the speech. For instance we
may ask the judges in the course of our statement of
the facts or of our arguments to give us their best
attention and good-will, a proceeding which Prodicus
recommended as a means of wakening them when
they begin to nod. A good example is the
following:1
1 Cic. pro Var. fr. 8.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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