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According to Alcidamas, the highest aim of the orator was the power of speaking extempore on every conceivable subject.
Aristotle ( Rhet.
iii.
3 ) criticizes his writings as characterized by pomposity of style and an extravagant use of poetical epithets and compounds and far-fetched metaphors.
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