We are told that the great
Latin
Orator very much impaired his Health by this
laterum contentio,
this Vehemence of Action, with which he used to deliver himself. The
Greek
Orator was likewise so very Famous for this Particular in Rhetorick, that one of his Antagonists, whom he had banished from
Athens
, reading over the Oration which had procured his Banishment, and seeing his Friends admire it, could not forbear asking them,
if they were so much affected by the bare reading of it, how much more they would have been alarmed, had they heard him actually throwing out such a Storm of Eloquence?