The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶72

The ablest preceptors of Greece and Asia had been invited by liberal rewards to direct the education of young Herod. Their pupil soon became a celebrated orator, according to the useless rhetoric of that age, which, confining itself to the schools, disdained to visit either the Forum or the Senate.

Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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