Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
took of the opportunities of his position. He felt himself strong enough to make a protest against the literary influence of Seneca, then the popular favourite, and to endeavour to recall a vitiated taste to more rigorous standards: _corruptum et omnibus vitiis fractum dicendi...
took of the opportunities of his position. He felt himself strong enough to make a protest against the literary influence of Seneca, then the popular favourite, and to endeavour to recall a vitiated taste to more rigorous standards: _corruptum et omnibus vitiis fractum dicendi genus revocare ad severiora iudicia contendo_ (x. 1, 125). And when, in the evening of his days, he wrote his great treatise on the ‘technical training’ of the orator, it was from himself and his own successful practice that he drew many of his most cogent illustrations, e.g. vi. 2, 36, and (in regard to his powers of memory) xi. 2, 39 and iv. 2, 86.
took of the opportunities of his position. He felt himself strong enough to make a protest against the literary influence of Seneca, then the popular favourite, and to endeavour...
2. Book vi. (about 93 A.D.) the17. _Quibus (libris) componendis, ut scis, paulo plus quam biennium tot alioqui negotiis districtus impendi; quod tempus non tam stilo quam inquisitioni instituti operis prope i...
3. CHAPTER I.§§ 1-4. The question whether a ready command of speech is best acquired by writing, or by reading, or by speaking, is of little practical importance, all three being indispensab...
4. CHAPTER II.§§ 1-3. While the command of words, figures, and arrangement is to be acquired by the study of the best authors, as recommended in the foregoing chapter, the mind must also be e...
5. CHAPTER III.§§ 1-4. _Introductory to the three chapters on Writing: chs. iii. and iv. treating of the manner of writing_ (quomodo), _and ch. v. of the matter and form of writing_ (quae maxi...
6. CHAPTER IV.§§ 1-2. The three parts of revision are addition, excision, and alteration. It is best to lay aside for a time what has been written: an interval after each new birth will furni...
7. CHAPTER V.§§ 1-8. The question now, as distinguished from the preliminary courses laid down in Books i. and ii., is what form of composition we should practise in order to acquire copious...
8. CHAPTER VI.§§ 1-4. Meditation occupies the middle ground between writing and improvisation, and is perhaps more frequently employed than either. _After_ we have formed our style by the con...
9. CHAPTER VII.§§ 1-4. The richest fruit of study is the ability to speak effectively on the spur of the moment: this is in fact absolutely indispensable. ‘An advocate who proffers help, and f...
10. CHAPTER I.I:1 I. Sed haec eloquendi praecepta, sicut cognitioni sunt necessaria, ita non satis ad vim dicendi valent, nisi illis firma 12 quaedam facilitas, quae apud Graecos ἕξις nominat...
11. viii. 2, 2 non mediocriter errare quidam solent qui omnia quae sunt inI:10 Haec ut sciamus atque eorum non significationem modo, sed formas etiam mensurasque norimus, ut ubicumque erunt posita conveniant, nisi multa lectione atque auditione adsequ...
12. ii. 5, 14 hoc diligentiae genus ausim dicere plus collaturum discentibusquam omnes omnium artes. Pr. §26 nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adiuvante natura: cp. §47 below litium et consiliorum artes: §49 qui de artibus scripserunt. This use is...
13. ii. 14: a cavalry officer must make his men often scour their cuirasses,praestringitur §92. Cic. de Fin. iv. §37 aciem animorum nostrorum virtutis splendore praestringitis: and with _ut ita dicam_ to soften the metaphor de Sen. §42 mentis ut ita dic...
14. xii. 2 (Fragmenta 111) Apud ipsum quoque Ciceronem invenies etiam inI:41 Nec multo aliud de novis sentio; quotus enim quisque inveniri tam demens potest, 43 qui ne minima quidem alicuius certe fiducia partis memoriam posteritatis speraverit? Qui...
15. xii. 10, 58 Quintilian repeats this: discerni posse etiam recte dicendigenera inter se videntur. Namque unum _subtile_, quod ἰσχνόν vocant, alterum _grande_ atque robustum, quod ἁδρόν dicunt, constituunt; tertium alii _medium_ ex duobus, alii _flor...
16. xvii. 1 Ἐκ Διὸς ἀρχώμεσθα καὶ ες Δία λήγετεrite. Cp. §85 ut apud illos (Graecos) Homerus sic apud nos Vergilius auspicatissimum dederit exordium. “Such a commencement will be a sort of consecration of the whole course; i...
17. vi. 1, 1 eius (perorationis) duplex ratio est, posita aut in rebus autin adfectibus. Cicero uses _conclusio_ as a synonym, de Inv. i. §98, where he says it has three parts, _enumeratio_, _indignatio_, and _conquestio_, defining the last (§106) as...
18. ii. 1, 4 grammatice, quam in Latinum transferentes litteraturamvocaverunt ... cum praeter rationem recte loquendi non parum alioqui copiosam prope omnium maximarum artium scientiam amplexa sit.—The phrase is one more indication of the secon...
19. ix. 858 E, where Tyrtaeus is classed with Homer for his moral andI:57 Nec sane quisquam est tam procul a cognitione eorum remotus ut non indicem certe ex bibliotheca sumptum transferre in libros suos possit. Nec ignoro igitur quos transeo nec...
20. xi. 6:)elegans: §§78, 87, 93, 99: 2 §19, ‘choice,’ ‘tasteful.’ Cp. Cic. Brut. §272 verborum delectus elegans. In the treatise ad Herenn. (iv. 12) _elegantia_ stands along with _composi...
21. i. 10, 66 rudis et Graecis intacti carminis auctor: for_incompositus_ see Introd. p. xlv. The author of the treatise ‘On the Sublime’ qualifies his eulogy of Aeschylus by adding in the same way that his plays were frequently unpolis...
22. iv. 5, 6 non enim solum oratoris est docere, sed plus eloquentia circamovendum valet. Cp. iii. 5, 2: Brut. §105: de Orat. ii. §128. In regard to this, Lysias is comparatively weak: ‘he cannot heighten the force of a plea, represent a wrong, or inv...
23. i. 8, 5 optime institutum est ut ab Homero atque Vergilio lectioauspicatissimum. Cp. Tac. Germ. 11 agendis rebus hoc anspicatissimum initium credunt: Plin. ad Traian, xvii. 3 cum mihi contigerit, quod erat auspicatissimum, natalem tuum in pr...
24. xi. 21, 4 me huic tuae virtuti proxime accedere: otherwise more commonlyad c. acc. Cp. de Orat. 1 §262 (dubitare) utrius oratio propius ad veritatem videretur accedere with Quint. xii. 10, 9 ad veritatem Lysippum ac Praxitelem optime accessisse. So...
25. vi. 26) quotes twenty-five hexameters of his, with the introductoryetiamsi sit. The use of the subj. would seem to indicate that Quintilian leaves the truth of the criticism an open question (Roby §1560). Osann is wrong in taking it as indicati...
26. vii. 79 Contentus fama iaceat Lucanus in hortis Marmoreis; at Serranotenuique Saleio Gloria quantalibet quid erit, si gloria tantum est? Some have ascribed to him the Eclogues which have come down to us under the name of Calpurnius Siculus. Marti...
27. i. 12 it would appear that he contemplated an epic poem on the war withthe Jews. Tac. Hist. iv. 86 Domitianus sperni a senioribus iuventam suam cernens, modice quoque et usurpata antea munia imperii omittebat, simplicitatis ac 88 modestiae imagine,...
28. viii. 82, 7 Non quercus te sola decet, nec laurea Phoebi: fiat et exI:93 Elegea quoque Graecos provocamus, cuius mihi tersus atque 89 elegans maxime videtur auctor Tibullus: sunt qui Propertium malint. Ovidius utroque lascivior, sicut durior Gal...
29. xi. 1, 10 maluit emim vir sapientissimus (Socrates) quod superesset exCremuti libertas: παρρησία, §65, §94. Cremutius Cordus published a history of the Civil Wars and of the reign of Augustus—unius saeculi facta, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 26, 5. Augustu...
30. i. 90) tells us he was supposed to have written the speech delivered byOtho to an assembly of the people: in rebus urbanis Galerii Trachali ingenio Othonem uti credebatur. Et erant qui genus ipsum orandi noscerent, crebro fori usu celebre et ad inp...
31. viii. 6, 11 (verba) quae audaci et proxime periculum translationetolluntur ... qualis est: pontem indignatus Araxes. Cp. paene periclitantia xi. 1, 32. For the phrase ex periculo petere cp. ii. 11, 3 sententiis grandibus, quarum optima quaequ...
32. xiv. 52, where his accusers, in order to prejudice him in the eyes ofNero (who was jealous of his reputation as a poet and an orator),—obiiciebant etiam eloquentiae laudem uni sibi adsciscere et carmina crebrius factitare postquam Neroni amor eor...
33. Book x of the letters to Novatus (in decimo epistularum ad Novatum),dialogi, i.e. the works called by this name in the Milan MS., not his tragedies, though these were written to be read rather than to be acted. There are twelve of them (v. Teuff...
34. CHAPTER II.II:1 II. Ex his ceterisque lectione dignis auctoribus et verborum sumenda copia est et varietas figurarum et componendi ratio, tum ad exemplum virtutum omnium mens derigenda. Ne...
35. viii. 3, 2 in ceteris iudicium doctorum, in hoc vero etiam populareminter ipsos is to be referred to _in magnis auctoribus_, not to _a doctis_: hence the comma.—_Inter ipsos_ would have been _inter se_ if the word to which the pronoun refers had...
36. iii. 7 ἐὰν οὖν τὰ μαλακὰ σκληρῶς καὶII:20 Atque ego illi praeceptori quem institueram in libro secundo credidi non ea sola docenda esse, ad quae quemque discipulorum natura compositum videret; nam is et adiuvare d...
37. CHAPTER III.III:1 III. Et haec quidem auxilia extrinsecus adhibentur; in iis autem quae nobis ipsis paranda sunt, ut laboris, sic utilitatis etiam longe plurimum adfert stilus. Nec immerito...
38. ix. 25, 258) mentions a Iulius Florus who was a pupil of Porcius Latro(fl. cir. B.C. 17). There is also the Gaulish nobleman who headed a rebellion among the Treveri, and afterwards committed suicide, A.D. 21 (Tac. Ann. iii. 40-42). Hild identifie...
39. CHAPTER IV.IV:1 IV. Sequitur emendatio, pars studiorum longe utilissima; neque enim sine causa creditum est stilum non minus agere, cum delet. Huius autem operis est adicere, detrahere, mu...
40. CHAPTER V.V:1 V. Proximum est ut dicamus quae praecipue scribenda sint ἕξιν parantibus. _Non est huius_ quidem operis ut explicemus quae sint materiae, quae prima aut secunda aut deinceps...
41. vii. 9, 11 Ut laus est cerae mollis cedensque sequatur Si doctos digitosaliae aliaeque, ‘first one and then another’: of a continuous succession: cp. quam numerosissime, above. Cp. Cels. iii. 3 extr. febres ... aliae aliaeque subinde oriuntur. With...
42. ii. 12, 2 excipit adversarii mollis articulus (of the gladiator handlingcotidiana pugna retundatur: cp. 1 §27 velut attrita cotidiano actu forensi ingenia optime rerum talium blanditia reparantur with the passage from pro Archia §12 quoted there. Pl...
43. CHAPTER VI.VI:1 VI. Proxima stilo cogitatio est, quae et ipsa vires ab hoc accipit et est inter scribendi laborem extemporalemque fortunam media quaedam et nescio an usus frequentissimi. N...
44. CHAPTER VII.VII:1 VII. Maximus vero studiorum fructus est et velut praemium quoddam amplissimum longi laboris ex tempore dicendi facultas; quam qui non erit consecutus mea quidem sententia...
45. CHAPTER I.quae quoque sint modo dicenda. So GHFTL, and Halm. The alternative reading is _quo quaeque s. m. d._, S and all my 15th cent. MSS: Spalding and Meister, with the approval of Bec...
46. CHAPTER II.§6. tradiderunt (BNM Harl. 2662, 4995, 4829, Burn. 243, and Dorv.) is powerfully supported by Becher in his latest tractate (Programm des königlichen Gymnasiums zu Aurich, p. 13...
47. CHAPTER III.§2. alte refossa. This (the reading of N) I have found also in Ioan. and Prat.: _alter effossa_ BH: _altius effossa_ Harl. 4995 M Harl. 4950, 4829 Burn. 244 Bodl. Dorv.: _alte e...
48. CHAPTER IV.20 words
49. CHAPTER V.§4. eadem: so most edd. and Spalding, followed by Mayor and Krüger (3rd ed.): _eandem_ all codd., with the single exception of M, and so Halm and Meister, though without giving...
50. CHAPTER VI.§1. vacui nec otium patitur. The reading in the text, which is quite satisfactory, occurs in Harl. 4995, 4950, and Dorv. Bn and Bg give _vacuum otium pat._, and are followed by...
51. CHAPTER VII.intrare portum Bn Bg H Ioan. N Sal. and most MSS. Halm adopts Meiser’s conj. _instar portus_. On this reading the advocate who has nothing but (_solam_) the _scribendi facultas_...