would have been meaningless unless his pieces were 
     intended for recitation. It was the artfulness which 
     Gorgias gave it that enabled Isocrates to maintain that 
     prose was the legitimate successor of poetry and must 
     replace it. Later critics like Dionysius of Halicarnassus 
     judge historians by the same gauge as oratory and make 
     comparisons between their works with no allowances for 
     what we should consider necessary differences in genera. 
     (pp. 50­1)

     Hadas then turns (pp. 51­2) to the well-known passage 
in St. Augustine’s Confessions: 

          Throughout antiquity and long thereafter even 
     private readers regularly pronounced the words of their 
     text aloud, in prose as well as poetry. Silent reading was