# M. Fabi Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae liber decimus Author: Quintilian, 35?-100?; Peterson, William, 1856-1921 [Editor] Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: Latina License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21827 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=M.+Fabi+Quintiliani+institutionis+oratoriae+liber+decimus+Quintilian&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary 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. ## Chapters - [xii. 1), shows the high ideal he cherished and the wide view he](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/1/index.md) - [Book vi. (about 93 A.D.) the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/10/index.md) - [viii. 2, 2 non mediocriter errare quidam solent qui omnia quae sunt in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/11/index.md) - [ii. 5, 14 hoc diligentiae genus ausim dicere plus collaturum discentibus](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/12/index.md) - [ii. 14: a cavalry officer must make his men often scour their cuirasses,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/13/index.md) - [xii. 2 (Fragmenta 111) Apud ipsum quoque Ciceronem invenies etiam in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/14/index.md) - [xii. 10, 58 Quintilian repeats this: discerni posse etiam recte dicendi](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/15/index.md) - [xvii. 1 Ἐκ Διὸς ἀρχώμεσθα καὶ ες Δία λήγετε](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/16/index.md) - [vi. 1, 1 eius (perorationis) duplex ratio est, posita aut in rebus aut](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/17/index.md) - [ii. 1, 4 grammatice, quam in Latinum transferentes litteraturam](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/18/index.md) - [ix. 858 E, where Tyrtaeus is classed with Homer for his moral and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/19/index.md) - [xi. 6:)](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/20/index.md) - [i. 10, 66 rudis et Graecis intacti carminis auctor: for](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/21/index.md) - [iv. 5, 6 non enim solum oratoris est docere, sed plus eloquentia circa](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/22/index.md) - [i. 8, 5 optime institutum est ut ab Homero atque Vergilio lectio](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/23/index.md) - [xi. 21, 4 me huic tuae virtuti proxime accedere: otherwise more commonly](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/24/index.md) - [vi. 26) quotes twenty-five hexameters of his, with the introductory](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/25/index.md) - [vii. 79 Contentus fama iaceat Lucanus in hortis Marmoreis; at Serrano](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/26/index.md) - [i. 12 it would appear that he contemplated an epic poem on the war with](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/27/index.md) - [viii. 82, 7 Non quercus te sola decet, nec laurea Phoebi: fiat et ex](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/28/index.md) - [xi. 1, 10 maluit emim vir sapientissimus (Socrates) quod superesset ex](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/29/index.md) - [i. 90) tells us he was supposed to have written the speech delivered by](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/30/index.md) - [viii. 6, 11 (verba) quae audaci et proxime periculum translatione](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/31/index.md) - [xiv. 52, where his accusers, in order to prejudice him in the eyes of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/32/index.md) - [Book x of the letters to Novatus (in decimo epistularum ad Novatum),](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/34/index.md) - [viii. 3, 2 in ceteris iudicium doctorum, in hoc vero etiam popularem](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/35/index.md) - [iii. 7 ἐὰν οὖν τὰ μαλακὰ σκληρῶς καὶ](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/37/index.md) - [ix. 25, 258) mentions a Iulius Florus who was a pupil of Porcius Latro](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/40/index.md) - [vii. 9, 11 Ut laus est cerae mollis cedensque sequatur Si doctos digitos](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/41/index.md) - [ii. 12, 2 excipit adversarii mollis articulus (of the gladiator handling](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/42/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/43/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/44/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/45/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/46/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/47/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/48/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/49/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/50/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/la/books/m-fabi-quintiliani-institutionis-oratoriae-liber-decimus-21827/chapters/51/index.md)