The Art of Rhetorichttps://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/arte/arte.htm
samples of the kind of entertainment an orator should interpose to lighten the effect of the weightier message he has to tell. Some of them are of historical or personal interest,
Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History. London: Bohn (1862) Book 29. pp.503-543.https://tertullian.org/fathers/ammianus_29_book29.htm
of witnessing an entertainment, by a senator named Quintianus, a man of wicked ambition. The other, when extremely old, was assailed as he was lying in his bed-chamber, by a centu
Roman history (Bohn translation)
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