Even in his day this appeared unduly conservative and his perorations were met with laughter, which effectively ended his political career before it had begun.
The manuscript stops short, without a peroration, though the last page is not written on the verso, so that the text that has been preserved was complete as it stood.
The peroration had two main purposes: to remind the audience of the main points of the speech ("recapitulatio") and to influence their emotions ("affectus").