Sankoh was a skilled orator and his populist, anti-elitist message attracted some who were desperate for a change in government.
Cicero held that a well-stocked memory was the most necessary equipment for an orator.
The worst thing an orator could do was to sound only rehearsed or ' memorized'; to be caught speaking entirely by rote was to invite mockery and condemnation.
The speeches of the four parliamentary orators cited are, in and of themselves, of little weight.
Yet the situation of orator and musical performer is surely different too.
This transgressive female orator was mirrored by her literary counterpart.
Xenophon and some orators describe in considerable detail the roles assumed by an entrepreneur as owner and manager of a household enterprise.
Singers' and orators' voices were trained to do the "considerable mechanical work" required.
