Now, an orator, as you know, is a great speaker.

An orator is a man who has the excellent and influential gift of public speech.

And on great occasions in public life when people are to be instructed, and impressed, and moved, and won over, then the great orator sets up his platform.
Quintilian teaches us in his _Institutes_ that it is only a good man who can be a really great orator.

What would that fine writer have said had he lived to read the _Holy War_, and seen the most successful of all orators that ever opened a mouth, and who was all the time a diabolical old varlet?
What would the author of _The Education of an Orator_ have said to that?
Diabolus did not on every occasion bring up his great orator Ill-pause.

He did not always come up himself, and he did not always send up Ill-pause.