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Quintilian, Institutes Of Oratory, 10.3.30

nan Therefore, whether we be in a crowd, on a journey, or even at some festive gathering, our thoughts should always have some inner sanctuary of their own to which they may retire. Otherwise what shall we do when we are suddenly called upon to deliver a set speech in the midst of the forum, with lawsuits in progress on every side, and with the sound of quarrels and even casual outcries in our ears, if we need absolute privacy to discover the thoughts which we jot down upon our tablets? It was for this reason that Demosthenes, the passionate lover of seclusion, used to study on the seashore amid the roar of the breakers that they might teach him not to be unnerved by the uproar of the public assembly.

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1. Cicero, De Oratore, 1.26 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.26. Hi primo die de temporibus deque universa re publica, quam ob causam venerant, multum inter se usque ad extremum tempus diei conlocuti sunt; quo quidem sermone multa divinitus a tribus illis consularibus Cotta deplorata et commemorata narrabat, ut nihil incidisset postea civitati mali, quod non impendere illi tanto ante vidissent.
2. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 11.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
3. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 6.5.9-6.5.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 6.5.9.  If we turn to Cicero, we shall find that one speech alone, the pro Cluentio, will suffice to provide a number of examples. The difficulty is to know what special exhibition of sagacity to admire most in this speech. His opening statement of the case, by which he discredited the mother whose authority pressed so hardly on her son? The fact that he preferred to throw the charge of having bribed the jury back upon his opponents rather than deny it on account of what he calls the notorious infamy of the verdict? Or his recourse, last of all, to the support of the law in spite of the odious nature of the affair, a method by which he would have set the judges against him but for the fact that he had already softened their feelings towards him? Or the skill which he shows in stating that he had adopted this course in spite of the protests of his client? 6.5.10.  What again am I to select as an outstanding instance of his sagacity in the pro Milone? The fact that he refrains from proceeding to his statement of facts until he has cleared the ground by disposing of the previous verdicts against the accused? The manner in which he turns the odium of the attempted ambush against Clodius, although as a matter of fact the encounter was a pure chance? The way in which he at one and the same time praised the actual deed and showed that it was forced upon his client? Or the skill with which he avoided making Milo plead for consideration and undertook the rôle of suppliant himself? It would be an endless task to quote all the instances of his sagacity, how he discredited Cotta, how he put forward his own case in defence of Ligarius and saved Cornelius by his bold admission of the facts.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
audience	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
battus	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
child	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
cicero,de oratore	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
cicero	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
declamation	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
demosthenes	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
dialogus,maternus	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
dialogus,messalla	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
forum	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
gloria	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
head	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
lisp	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
orator	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
oratory	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
rhetoric/ rhetorician	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
speech impairment	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
stutter'	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
tacitus	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294
torquatus,lucius manlius	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 174
trials	Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 294