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The term epideictic seems to me however
to imply display rather than demonstration, and to
have a very different meaning from encomiastic. For
although it includes laudatory oratory, it does not
confine itself thereto.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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