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Plutarch, Demosthenes, 6.3-6.4
καίτοι τό γε πρῶτον ἐντυγχάνων τῷ δήμῳ θορύβοις περιέπιπτε καὶ κατεγελᾶτο διʼ ἀήθειαν, τοῦ λόγου συγκεχύσθαι ταῖς περιόδοις καὶ βεβασανίσθαι τοῖς ἐνθυμήμασι πικρῶς ἄγαν καὶ κατακόρως δοκοῦντος. ἦν δέ τις, ὡς ἔοικε, καὶ φωνῆς ἀσθένεια καὶ γλώττης ἀσάφεια καὶ πνεύματος κολοβότης ἐπιταράττουσα τὸν νοῦν τῶν λεγομένων τῷ διασπᾶσθαι τὰς περιόδους.  And yet when he first addressed the people he was interrupted by their clamours and laughed at for his inexperience, since his discourse seemed to them confused by long periods and too harshly and immoderately tortured by formal arguments.
τέλος δʼ ἀποστάντα τοῦ δήμου καὶ ῥεμβόμενον ἐν Πειραιεῖ διʼ ἀθυμίαν Εὔνομος ὁ Θριάσιος ἤδη πάνυ γέρων θεασάμενος ἐπετίμησεν, ὅτι τὸν λόγον ἔχων ὁμοιότατον τῷ Περικλέους προδίδωσιν ὑπʼ ἀτολμίας καὶ μαλακίας ἑαυτόν, οὔτε τοὺς ὄχλους ὑφιστάμενος εὐθαρσῶς, οὔτε τό σῶμα πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας ἐξαρτυόμενος, ἀλλὰ τρυφῇ περιορῶν μαραινόμενον.  He had also, as it would appear, a certain weakness of voice and indistinctness of speech and shortness of breath which disturbed the sense of what he said by disjoining his sentences.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

16 results
1. Lysias, Orations, 19.2 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
2. Anon., Rhetorica Ad Herennium, 3.11.19 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, The Arrangement of Words, 11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, The Arrangement of Words, 11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, On The Admirable Style of Demosthenes, 54 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. New Testament, Luke, 21.24 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 21.24. They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
7. New Testament, Matthew, 22.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 22.7. But the king was angry, and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
8. Plutarch, Whether An Old Man Should Engage In Public Affairs, 792 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Plutarch, Cato The Younger, 9.9-9.10 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Plutarch, Demetrius, 6.3, 29.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
11. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 6.4-6.5, 11.1, 29.2-29.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
12. Plutarch, Precepts of Statecraft, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
13. Plutarch, Sulla, 17-20, 16 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
14. Plutarch, Tiberius And Gaius Gracchus, 2.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
15. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 4.1.8-4.1.11, 11.1.15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 4.1.8.  But just as the authority of the speaker carries greatest weight, if his undertaking of the case is free from all suspicion of meanness, personal spite or ambition, so also we shall derive some silent support from representing that we are weak, unprepared, and no match for the powerful talents arrayed against us, a frequent trick in the exordia of Messala. 4.1.9.  For men have a natural prejudice in favour of those who are struggling against difficulties, and a scrupulous judge is always specially ready to listen to an advocate whom he does not suspect to have designs on his integrity. Hence arose the tendency of ancient orators to pretend to conceal their eloquence, a practice exceedingly unlike the ostentation of our own times. 4.1.10.  It is also important to avoid giving the impression that we are abusive, maligt, proud or slanderous toward any individual or body of men, especially such as cannot be hurt without exciting the disapproval of the judges. 4.1.11.  As to the judge, it would be folly for me to warn speakers not to say or even hint anything against him, but for the fact that such things do occur. Our opponent's advocate will sometimes provide us with material for our exordium: we may speak of him in honorific terms, pretending to fear his eloquence and influence with a view to rendering them suspect to the judge, or occasionally, though very seldom, we may abuse him, as Asinius did in his speech on behalf of the heirs of Urbinia, where he includes among the proofs of the weakness of the plaintiff's case the fact that he has secured Labienus as his advocate. 11.1.15.  When, however, we are speaking of our own affairs or those of others, we must distinguish between the expedient and the becoming, while recognising that the majority of the points which we have to consider will fall under neither head. In the first place, then, all kinds of boasting are a mistake, above all, it is an error for an orator to praise his own eloquence, and, further, not merely wearies, but in the majority of cases disgusts the audience.
16. Philostratus The Athenian, Lives of The Sophists, 1.25.539, 1.25.541-1.25.542 (2nd cent. CE

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
appearance	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
artist	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
audience, plutarchs interaction with his	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
audience, the subjects interaction with his	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
chaeronea	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
character (plutarchs and readers concern with)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
characterisation, of the subjects	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
characterisation, plutarchs self-	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
characterisation	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
child	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
cicero, and rhetoric vs. action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
cicero, compared with demosthenes	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
cicero	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
cimon	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
closure (endings of biographies)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
cowardice	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
death, of the subjects	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
death	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
demosthenes	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
demosthenes (orator), and the balance between rhetoric and action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
demosthenes (orator), compared with cicero	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
demosthenes (orator)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
dreams	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
experience, of characters (individual and collective)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
experience, plutarchs personal	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
happiness	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
history	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
isocrates	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
narrator, authority of	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
orator(y), plutarchs interest in	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
orator(y)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
orator	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
politics, the subjects preoccupation with	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
politics	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
prologue (to plutarchs book)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
rehabilitation	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
rhetoric(al), contrasted with action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
rhetoric(al), contrasted with ethics	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
rhetoric(al), of plutarch	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
rhetoric(al), of the subjects	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47, 50
rhetoric, and comparison or competition	Keener, First-Second Corinthians (2005) 218
rhetoric, pauls use of	Keener, First-Second Corinthians (2005) 34
rhetoric/ rhetorician	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
rhetorical delivery	Keener, First-Second Corinthians (2005) 34
rhetorical expectations'	Keener, First-Second Corinthians (2005) 218
self-praise	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
speech impairment	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
statues	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
stutter	Laes Goodey and Rose, Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies (2013) 173
style/stylistic (interest in)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 50
synkrisis, formal	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
theatrical(ity)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47
tragedy/tragic	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 47