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What can be more brutal than the words of Verres' lictor, To see him you will pay so much ? I.e. to visit a relative in prison, Verr. v. xlv. 118; cp. Quint. IX. iv. 71. or braver than those of the man from whom the scourge could wring but one cry, I am a Roman citizen! Verr. V. lxii. 162. Again, read the words which Cicero places in the mouth of Milo in his peroration: are they not worthy of the man who to save the state had so oft repressed a seditious citizen, and had triumphed by his valour over the ambush that was laid for him? Cp. ii. 25; VI. v. 10.
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Further, it is not merely true that the variety required in impersonation will be in proportion to the variety presented by the case, for impersonation demands even greater variety, since it involves the portrayal of the emotions of children, women, nations, and even of voiceless things, all of which require to be represented in character.
