Equally forensic is the transposition of persons; it often makes the hearer think himself in the very midst of the dangers. ‘You would say they were unspent and unbroken in meeting the war, so eagerly were they fighting.’ And Aratus: ‘Mayest thou not in that month be drenched by the sea.’ §1
So too Herodotus: ‘From the city of Elephantine you will sail upward, and then you will come to a flat plain; and going through this region and getting into another boat, you will sail two days; then you will reach a great city, the name of which is Meroë.’ Do you see, my friend, how, taking your soul, he leads it through these places, making your hearing into seeing? All such turns, leaning straight upon the persons themselves, place the hearer at the very scene of the action. §2
And whenever you speak as not to all, but to one alone — ‘Tydides you would not know on whose side he was’ — you will make him both more passionate and more attentive, and full of contest, awakened by the addresses to himself. §3