Rhetoric

for indeed a king has need of rhetoric too.

But how do you suppose Homer was minded about rhetoric?

And the greatness of the use of speech he showed in another passage as well.

and the future statesman received an elaborate education in rhetoric, law, and philosophy, studying and practising under some of the most noted teachers of the time.

Now, however, I have completely given up these devices of rhetoric.

Wherefore I thought that I was entitled to more honor than the speakers who come before you on the platform in proportion as my discourses were on greater and nobler themes than theirs.

on the contrary, I know full well, and have often said, that while it is easy to magnify little things by means of discourse, it is difficult to find terms of praise to match deeds of surpassing magnitude and excellence.

but the art of speaking and writing is exercised chiefly in lawsuits, and that of speaking also in public assemblies;

And in political speaking he will make the same things seem to the State at one time good and at another the opposite?

Since it is the function of speech to lead souls by persuasion, he who is to be a rhetorician must know the various forms of soul.

So rhetoric also seems to have been quickly separated from statesmanship as a different species, subservient to the other.