Try, then, if you will, adding the conjunctions, as the disciples of Isocrates do: ‘And further, neither must this be passed over, that the striker would do many things, first by his attitude, and then by his look, and then again by the very voice itself.’ You will see, by writing on in this fashion, that the chasing and roughened quality of the passion, if you smooth it down with conjunctions into a flat surface, falls quite stingless and is at once put out. §1
For just as if one were to bind the bodies of runners together their motion would be taken away, so passion, when it is hampered by the conjunctions and other supplements, takes offence; for it loses the freedom of its course and the impulse of being launched, as it were, from some engine. §2