Book II, much of which is quoted above, Quintilian has many incidental

references and allusions. At IV. ii. 29, he defines _declamatio_ as _forensium actionum meditatio_, “exercise in pleading”, and he implies the same definition in _ad declamandum ficta materia_ (I. x. 33) and in _fictas ad imitationem fori consiliorumque materias_ (i.e., _controversias suasoriasque_, II. iv. 41). Steadfastly ignoring its use as a form of public speaking, he consistently treats it as a school exercise. He implies that _declamatio_ embraced a large part of actual teaching when he complains (II. i. 8) that it is forecast by _grammaticus_, and calls _rhetor_ (II. i. 3) _declamandi magister_. He says repeatedly that it depends largely on imaginative realization of character and emotion (VI. i. 25-27; X. i. 71; and the passage on _prosopopœiæ_ quoted above). He admits the use of it as an exhibition of virtuosity (_in ostentationem_, II. x. 10), but satirizes this (II.