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There are a number of gradations of tone which may be employed to kindle the feeling of the judges. The most vehement tones that an orator is ever called upon to use will be employed in passages such as the following: pro Liq. iii. 7 and 6. When the war was begun, Caesar, and was, in fact, well on its way to a conclusion. For he has just said: I will use my voice to its fullest power, that all the Roman people may hear me. On the other hand, a lower tone, not devoid of a certain charm, should be employed in passages such as: pro Liq. iii. 9. What was that sword of yours doing, 'Tubero, that sword that was drawn on the field of Pharsalus?
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But the utterance must be fuller, slower, and consequently sweeter, when the orator says, Phil. ii. xxv. 63. But in an assembly of the Homan people, and when he was performing his official functions. In this passage every sound should e drawn out, we should dwell upon the vowel-sounds and speak fill-throated. Still fuller should be the stream of our voice in the invocation, pro Mil. xxxi. 85. You, hills and groves of Alba ; while a tone not far removed from chanting, and dying away to a cadence, should be employed in delivering the phrase, pro Arch. viii. 19. Rocks and solitudes answer to the voice.
