Letter 111: You ask how many lines Dioscorus declaims every day?
Letter 111: On Declamation
[1] To Troilus
You ask me how many lines Dioscorus declaims every day? Fifty. He renders them without a mistake, without repeating himself, or stopping for a moment to recall them. [2] Once he has commenced he goes forward without pausing, and silence marks the end of his declamation.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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