Roman
Hero, who cannot enter into the Rules for Pronunciation and Gesture delivered by a
Roman
Orator.
There is another thing which my Author does not think too minute to insist on, though it is purely mechanical: and that is the right
pitching
of the Voice. On this occasion he tells the Story of
Gracchus
, who employed a Servant with a little Ivory Pipe to stand behind him, and give him the right Pitch, as often as he wandered too far from the proper