[Footnote 92: A country of Asia Minor occupying a part of the Black Sea coast.] [Footnote 93: From the "Natural History." Translated by John Bostock and H. T. Riley.] [Footnote 94: Apelles lived in the time of Philip and Alexander the Great. Cos is an island in the AEgean Sea.] [Footnote 95: A painter of the Sicyonian school who flourished in the third century B.C.] [Footnote 96: Protogenes, a native of Caria, in Asia Minor, was celebrated as a painter at Rhodes in the second half of the fourth century B.C.] [Footnote 97: Praxiteles was born in Athena about the end of the fifth century and continued active as an artist until the time at Alexander the Great. Nearly sixty of his works are mentioned in ancient writings, but only two have been identified in modern times.] [Footnote 98: Phidias was born in Athens about 500 B.C. and died about 430.] QUINTILIAN Born in Spain about 35 A.D.; died about 95; celebrated as rhetorian; educated in Rome, where he taught oratory for twenty years; patronized by the emperors Vespasian and Domitian; his most celebrated work the "Institutio Oratoria."[99] THE ORATOR MUST BE A GOOD MAN[100] Let the orator, then, whom I propose to form, be such a one as is characterized by the definition of Marcus Cato, _a good man skilled in speaking_. But the requisite which Cato has placed first in this definition, that an orator should be _a good man_, is naturally of more estimation and importance than the other. It is of importance that an orator should be good, because, should the power of speaking be a support to evil, nothing would be more pernicious than eloquence alike to public concerns and private, and I myself, who, as far as is in my power, strive to contribute something to the faculty of the orator, should deserve very ill of the world, since I should furnish arms, not for soldiers, but for robbers. May I not draw an argument from the condition of mankind? Nature herself, in bestowing on man that which she seems to have granted him preeminently, and by which she appears to have distinguished us from all other animals, would have acted, not as a parent, but as a stepmother, if she had designed the faculty of speech to be the promoter of crime, the oppressor of innocence, and the enemy of truth; for it would have been better for us to have been born dumb, and to have been left destitute of reasoning powers, than to have received endowments from providence only to turn them to the destruction of one another.