greatest Greek and Roman orators were preserved and potent in the culture of the age, and these two languages were dominant in all the social life of the peoples, among whom the new religion was to make its principal advances for centuries to come. The Græco-Roman oratory at its best estate was lacking in one great essential to the highest eloquence. It had no religious content, and but incidentally a moral one. The accepted division of oratory into its kinds was threefold: deliberative, or political;