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These are the modulations denounced by Demosthenes de Cor. 90. and Aeschines, In Ctes. 72. but they do not necessarily for that reason merit our disapprobation. For as each of these orators taunts the other with making use of them, it is clear that they were employed by both. We may be sure that Demosthenes did not restrict himself to his ordinary simplicity of tone when he swore by those that fought for their country at Marathon, Plataea and Salamis, De Cor. 60. nor did Aeschines employ a colloquial utterance when he lamented for the fate of Thebes. In Ctes. 49.
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There is also an entirely different tone, which might be described as lying almost outside the range of the instrument. The Greeks call it bitterness, and it consists in an extravagant acerbity almost beyond the compass of the human voice. It is employed in passages such as, pro Rab. perd. vi. 18. Why do you not restrain those cries, the proof of your folly and the evidence of your small numbers? But the extravagance of which I spoke will come in at the opening, where the orator cries, Why do you not restrain?
