| Portraits of famous Greek and Roman poets, orators, and statesmen filled libraries and peristyles. |
| The orators who had advocated the war loudly triumphed in the seeming fulfilment of their sanguine predictions. |
| Public speeches by master orators were also very popular as a performing art. |
| Those French orators engaged in the real matters of public concern address the king and the great nobles either from the pulpit or in parliament. |
| The masses were, in brief, shortsighted, selfish and fickle, an easy prey to unscrupulous orators who came to be known as demagogues. |
| Both were highly effective orators, but with markedly different techniques. |
