ootnote 90: The home of this warlike people appears to have been
Jutland.]

[Footnote 91: The tyrant king of Syracuse, successor to Gelon.]

[Footnote 92: A country of Asia Minor occupying a part of the Black
Sea coast.]

[Footnote 93: From the "Natural History." Translated by John Bostock
and H. T. Riley.]

[Footnote 94: Apelles lived in the time of Philip and Alexander the
Great. Cos is an island in the AEgean Sea.]

[Footnote 95: A painter of the Sicyonian school who flourished in the
third century B.C.]

[Footnote 96: Protogenes, a native of Caria, in Asia Minor, was
celebrated as a painter at Rhodes in the second half of the fourth
century B.C.]

[Footnote 97: Praxiteles was born in Athena about the end of the fifth
century and continued active as an artist until the time at Alexander
the Great. Nearly sixty of his works are mentioned in ancient
writings, but only two have been identified in modern times.]

[Footnote 98: Phidias was born in Athens about 500 B.C. and died about
430.]

QUINTILIAN

Born in Spain about 35 A.D.; died about 95; celebrated as
rhetorian; educated in Rome, where he taught oratory for
twenty years; patronized by the emperors Vespasian and
Domitian; his most celebrated work the "Institutio
Oratoria."[99]

THE ORATOR MUST BE A GOOD MAN[100]

Let the orator, then, whom I propose to form, be such a one as is
characterized by the definition of Marcus Cato, _a good man skilled in
speaking_.

But the requisite which Cato has placed first in this definition, that
an orator should be _a good man_, is naturally of more estimation and
importance than the other. It is of importance that an orator should
be good, because, should the power of speaking be a support to evil,
nothing would be more pernicious than eloquence alike to public
concerns and private, and I myself, who, as far as is in my power,
strive to contribute something to the faculty of the orator, should
deserve very ill of the world, since I should furnish arms, not for
soldiers, but for robbers. May I not draw an argument from the
condition of mankind? Nature herself, in bestowing on man that which
she seems to have granted him preeminently, and by which she appears
to have distinguished us from all other animals, would have acted, not
as a parent, but as a stepmother, if she had designed the faculty of
speech to be the promoter of crime, the oppressor of innocence, and
the enemy of tr