…he left Italy and travelled into Greece, where he spent his time in military exercises and in the study of eloquence. He took most to what was called the Asiatic taste in speaking, which was then at its height, and was, in many ways, suitable to his ostentatious, vaunting temper, full of empty flourishes and unsteady efforts for glory.
Nice summary of both a character and the moral side of rhetoric.
This is from the Dryden Translation, The Modern Library Classics, volume 2, the chapter on Antony.
