Excerpt from A Rhetorical Study of the Leptinean Orations

The ending of the speech bears great similarity to the begin ning. The abruptness of both is characteristic, and yet this abruptness is not harsh. It rather betokens simplicity, frankness, and directness of statement. Without any special exhortation or passionate appeal to the jurors to cast their votes in his favor, he comes down from the bema apparently satisfied to let the case be decided on its own merits.

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