aratorem

Updated: May 21, 2025

And as for the Frate, whatever we may think of his saintliness, you judge his preaching too narrowly. The secret of oratory lies, not in saying new things, but in saying things with a certain power that moves the hearers without which, as old Filelfo has said, your speaker deserves to be called, `non oratorem, sed aratorem. And, according to that test, Fra Girolamo is a great orator."

George Eliot - Romola