Elsewhere, his narrative is solidly grounded in extant speeches and court transcripts – though even with a rich body of endnotes it is sometimes difficult to be wholly certain where research stops and reconstruction begins.
In the last year of his life, he opposed Mark Antony's efforts to undermine Republican rule in Rome and denounced him in a series of extant speeches that attain a level of vituperation more redolent of a hip-hop beef than the golden age of Latin prose: "You donned the toga of manhood, but you soon turned it into a womanly costume.
Most of his extant speeches for private cases written early in his career show glimpses of talent: a powerful intellectual drive, masterly selection (and omission) of facts, and a confident assertion of the justice of his case, all ensuring the dominance of his viewpoint over his rival.
His extant writings include display speeches, purportedly in defence of Helen and Palamedes against charges of treachery (DK 82B11 and 11a); they seem to be intended partly as examples of stylistic brilliance for its own sake and partly as demonstration of skill in adversarial argument, 'making the weaker argument the stronger' (see above).
In the United States, this typically involves Spanish translations of extant instruments (e.g., intelligence or speech, language, and memory tests), but the inventory of instruments in Spanish is still quite low.
HIS Second Inaugural Address provided us with the only extant photograph of Abraham Lincoln delivering a speech.
"If the act can effectively eliminate the real-child requirement when a proposal relates to extant material, a class of protected speech will disappear," Justice Souter said.
In the review of White's book on Lincoln's Second Inaugural, Byrd notes that the camera operator who took "the only extant photograph of Abraham Lincoln delivering a speech" somehow produced an out-of-focus result.
All Caesar's speeches and writings, lost and extant, apparently served political purposes.
There is scholarship extant on who it was who composed the speeches given by Franklin Roosevelt, but it is not here vouchsafed.
