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Page iv
... Quin- tilian makes to his teacher Domitius Afer , who is known to have died at a ripe old age in A. D. 59 : cp . xii . 11 , 3 vidi ego ... Domitium Afrum valde senem : v . 7 , 7 quem adulescentulus senem colui : x . 1 , 86 quae ex Afro ...
... Quin- tilian makes to his teacher Domitius Afer , who is known to have died at a ripe old age in A. D. 59 : cp . xii . 11 , 3 vidi ego ... Domitium Afrum valde senem : v . 7 , 7 quem adulescentulus senem colui : x . 1 , 86 quae ex Afro ...
Page v
... Quin- tilian was not only a learned man and a great teacher : he was a great There is however some doubt about the name , most editors reading L. Galba . moral power in the midst of a people which had LIFE OF QUINTILIAN .
... Quin- tilian was not only a learned man and a great teacher : he was a great There is however some doubt about the name , most editors reading L. Galba . moral power in the midst of a people which had LIFE OF QUINTILIAN .
Page x
... Quin- tilian's care when he wrote the Introduc- tion to the Sixth Book ( where referring to his domestic losses he says that he will live henceforth not to himself but to the youth of Rome ) , he would almost certainly have made some ...
... Quin- tilian's care when he wrote the Introduc- tion to the Sixth Book ( where referring to his domestic losses he says that he will live henceforth not to himself but to the youth of Rome ) , he would almost certainly have made some ...
Page xiii
... Quin- tilian . Domitian was assassinated in 96 , and under the new régime it is possible that the favourite of the Flavian emperors may have been under a cloud . But his work was done ; even if he lived on for a few years longer in ...
... Quin- tilian . Domitian was assassinated in 96 , and under the new régime it is possible that the favourite of the Flavian emperors may have been under a cloud . But his work was done ; even if he lived on for a few years longer in ...
Page xv
... Quin- tilian's views of grammar . The second book treats of rhetoric in general : the choice of a proper instructor , as well as his character and function , and the nature , principles , aims , and use of oratory . It is in these early ...
... Quin- tilian's views of grammar . The second book treats of rhetoric in general : the choice of a proper instructor , as well as his character and function , and the nature , principles , aims , and use of oratory . It is in these early ...
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Page 154 - Entre toutes les différentes expressions qui peuvent rendre une seule de nos pensées, il n'y en a qu'une qui soit la bonne. On ne la rencontre pas toujours en parlant ou en écrivant ; il est vrai néanmoins qu'elle existe, que tout ce qui ne l'est point est faible, et ne satisfait point un homme d'esprit qui veut se faire entendre.
Page 92 - Horatio, quamquam illi epodos intervenit, reperiatur. at lyricorum idem Horatius fere solus legi dignus: nam 'et insurgit aliquando et plenus est iucunditatis et gratiae et varius" figuris et verbis felicissime audax.
Page 125 - Adde quod ea, quae in oratore maxima sunt, imitabilia non sunt, ingenium, inventio, vis, facilitas et quidquid arte non 13 traditur. Ideoque plerique, cum verba quaedam ex orationibus excerpserunt aut aliquos compositionis certos pedes, mire a se, quae legerunt, effingi arbitrantur ; cum et verba intercidant invalescantque temporibus, ut quorum certissima sit regula in...
Page 125 - Eum vero nemo potest aequare cuius vestigiis sibi utique insistendum putat ; necesse est enim semper sit posterior qui sequitur. Adde quod plerumque facilius est plus faceré quam idem ; tantam enim difficultatem habet similitude ut ne ipsa quidem natura in hoc ita évaluent ut non res quae simillimae quaeque pares maxime videantur uti11 que discrimine aliquo discernantur.
Page 94 - Accius atque Pacuvius clarissimi gravitate sententiarum, verborum pondere, auctoritate personarum. ceterum nitor et summa in excolendis operibus manus magis videri potest temporibus quam ipsis defuisse : virium tarnen Accio plus tribuitur, Pacuvium videri doctiorem, qui esse docti adfectant, volunt.
Page 59 - Successit vetus his comoedia non sine multa Laude, sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim Dignam lege regi : lex est accepta, chorusque Turpiter obticuit sublato jure nocendi.
Page 88 - Lucilium fluere lutulentum et esse aliquid quod tollere possis, putat. Nam eruditio in eo mira et libertas atque inde acerbitas et abunde salis.
Page 61 - Tragoedias primus in lucem Aeschylus protulit, sublimis et gravis et grandiloquus saepe usque ad vitium, sed rudis in plerisque et incompositus ; propter quod correctas eius fabulas in certamen deferre posterioribus poetis Athenienses permiserunt, suntque eo modo multi 67 coronati. Sed longe clarius illustraverunt hoc opus Sophocles atque Euripides, quorum in dispari dicendi via uter sit poeta melior, inter plurimos quaeritur.
Page 53 - Admirabilis in suo genere THEOCRITUS, sed musa illa rustica et pastoralis non forum modo, verum ipsam etiam urbem reformidat.
Page 102 - Quem tamen et suorum homines temporum incessere audebant ut tumidiorem et Asianum et redundantem et in repetitionibus nimium et in salibus aliquando frigidum et in compositione fractum, exultantem ac paene, quod procul absit, viro...