The poets appear to have aimed at expressing some particular passion oratorically, as Virgil has done so powerfully in his representation of Mezentius and Turnus, but not to have created any of those great types of human character such as the world owes to Homer, Sophocles, and Shakspeare.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
I presume you see my point by this time concerning a second effort in Shelbyville-oratorically.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
Be fair, young people; remember these words,' he paused, lifted his hand oratorically and then made his statement with an unusually deep gravity,-'Every one, though appearing guilty, must be given an opportunity to prove himself innocent.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory