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Roman and Renaissance times alike), Bonner adds (Roman
Declamation , p. 65):
But apart from these characteristics their diction is much
the same as that of contemporary writers, and is typical
of the earliest ‘Silver Latin’.
In composition, the chief faults are the excessive
use of short and disjointed sentences, giving an abrupt
effect to the style, the rarity of well-balanced periods, and
the use by some declaimers of weak and ineffective
rhythms. The style of these extracts is what the Greek
critics would have called katakekommenp or
kekermtsmaenp as an antidote to periodic structure, this
feature would have been most effective, but it is so
frequently used that the mind wearies of the repeated