Rhetoric Day 96.1
The Summing Up gathers together and recalls the points we have made – briefly, that the speech may not be repeated in entirety, but that the memory of it may be refreshed; and we shall reproduce all the points in the order in which they have been presented, so that the hearer, if he has committed them to memory, is brought back to what he remembers. [W]e must take care that the Summary should not be carried back to the Introduction or the Statement of Facts. Otherwise the speech will appear to have been fabricated and devised with elaborate pains so as to demonstrate the speaker’s skill, advertise his wit, and display his memory. Therefore, the Summary must take its beginning from the Division. Then we must in order and briefly set forth the points treated in the proof and Refutation.
- Cicero "Ad Herennium
