moods can be set.5 The three voice qualities are volume, harmony, and rhythm. He designated as “vulgar” concern for delivery, no doubt thereby disclosing the importance he attached to it.6 But since delivery carries the day in persuasion, attention must be directed to it. He was content, however, to let the actors spell out specific guidelines. He declared that written composition was the most precise. “The epideictic style is especially suited to written compositions, for its function is reading;