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A professional speech-maker or teacher of speech-making. Orators were often employed on diplomatic missions in ancient Greece and in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were still employed by envoys solely for the purpose of making an oration. Wicquefort says of the embassy of obedience that ‘an orator, hired for that purpose, pronounces the harangue in the presence of the pope, and of the college of cardinals’.
In echo of this ancient usage, ‘orator’ was also a term commonly employed in this later period as a synonym for the envoy himself, reflecting as it did the importance attached at this period to the oration delivered by a special ambassador – usually in classical Latin – at his reception. |
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