Quae etsi nunc aptior exstiterit, eloquentiam tamen illud forum magis exercebat, in quo nemo intra paucissimas perorare horas cogebatur et liberae comperendinationes erant et modum <in> dicendo sibi quisque sumebat et numerus neque dierum  neque patronorum finiebatur.
It may nowadays have become more practical, but all the same the forum as it then was provided a better training-ground for oratory. There was no obligation on any speaker to complete his pleading within an hour or two at the most; adjournments were always in order; as regards a time-limit, each man was a law to himself; and no attempt was made to define either how many days the case was to take or how many counsel were to be employed in it.
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