The Institutio oratoria of Quintilian

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by  Quintilian

QUINTILIAN
INSTITUTIO ORATORIA
BOOKS
-II
Translated
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BUTLER
H. E.
QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius (0.35-
c.9$ AD) of Calagurris in Spain was
brought up at Rome, but was in Spain
from 61 to 68, when with the new-made
emperor Galba he returned to Rome.
There he became head ofthe most impor-
tant school of Oratory, and sometimes
pleaded in the law-courts. The emperor
Vespasian (6979) made him a 'Professor
of Latin Rhetoric' until he retired to
compose a lost work on why eloquence
had declined, and the extant Institutio
Oratoria 'Training ofan Orator' (in twelve
books). He was also teacher to the em-
peror Domitian's two grand-nephews.
Quintilian had been taught by the famous
Seneca and Domitius ofNimes. He
greatly
admired the long dead orator Cicero,
whom he saw as amodel for orators ofhis
own age. His Institutio propounds for an
orator a training in character and oratory
frombirth. He presentsus withinteresting
and importantviews ongeneral education,
deals in detail with all oratorical composi-
tion and the devices of rhetoric, and
outlines the ideal orator. His review ofthe
past literature of Greece and Rome is
famous and makes him a good literary
critic. The whole work is composed in a
dignified yet pleasant style, and his judge-
ments are fair and gentle.
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QUINTILIAN
INSTITUTIO ORATORIA
BOOKS
I-III
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
BUTLER
H. E.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
LONDON, ENGLAND
Firstpublished 1920
Reprinted19,3,3, 195.3, 1958, 196.3, 1969, 1980, 1989, 1996
ISBN0-674-99138-9
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BoundbyHunteri~ FoulisLtd, Edinburgh, Scotland.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION VJi
BIBLIOGRAPHY xi
LETTER TO HIS PUBLISHER. TRYPHO 2
BOOK I 4
Preface. Ch. 1: Elementary Education. Ch. 2:
The merits of public and private education com-
pared. Ch. 3: General reflections on the capacity
and treatment of pupils. Ch. 4: Grammar.
Ch. 5: Correctness; barbarisms; pronunciation :
tchoempaosupnirda,tem;etaacpcheonrtisca;l,solneecwi,smset;c.worCdhs.,6fo:reLiagnn-,
guage; analogy; etymology ; old words; au-
btheotrwieteyn;supsealglei.ng aCnhd.p7ro:nuOnrctiahtoigorna.phyCh;.d8if:fRereeandce
ivnaglu;eaoufthohirsstotroy.beChr.ead9:; Cmoemtphoosditsioonf. teCahc.hin1g0
Other studies necessary to rhetoric; music, geo
metry, astronomy. Ch. 11 : Instruction to be
derived from the stage ; delivery ; gesture; reci-
tiantgioann;ugmybmenrasotfics.ubjeCcht.s1a2t:onBcoey.scapableofstudy-
BOOK II 203
Cbhe.tw1ee:nRhrehteotroircannodt bgreagmumnateiarcluys.enoCuhg.h2; r:elCahtoiiocnes
of a teacher; mutual duties of teacher and pupil.
Ch. 3: Necessity of avoiding inferiorteachers.
Cphr.oof4:anEdlermeefnuttaatriyonrh;etpoarniecgaylreixcoracnisdesde;nnuanrcriaattiivoens;;
commonplaces; theses; reasons; preparations for
pleadings; praise and blame ofparticularlaws; fic-
titiousdeclamations. Ch. 5: Assistanceto be given
to pupils. Ch. 6: Declamation. Ch. 7: Ortho-
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graphy. Ch. 8: Different methods required for
different pupils. Ch.9: Pupils to regard teachersas
in loco parentis. Ch. 10: Themes for declamation;
criticism of existing practice. Ch. 11: Criticism of
those who think instruction in rhetoric unneces-
sary; necessityofthoroughnessofmethod. Ch. 12:
MNveaorliurteisgiaodfndruruldleeesfse.cptosssCihob.fleu1;n4t:nreacieTnsheseditsytpeeorafkmeardrsah.pettaoCbrhii.lcit1oy3r:;
Corha.to1r5y:; Whheaadts uisndoerratwohriyc?h iVtairsitoousbedceofnisniidteiroends.;
Quintilian'sdefinition. Ch.16: Oratorydenounced
ebcrxyicteilsclsoemnoecfesbtheaicnsaduvsiveealwoufe;.ictrsiCthic.casp1a7ocfi:tiyOtrsafomtroorrahylairatmny;;arritets-;
lation to truth. Ch. 18: Arts or sciences of
three kinds; rhetoric a practical art or science,
though partaking of the nature of theoretic and
productivearts. Ch. 19: Natureandart. Ch.20:
Is rhetoric a virtue? Ch. 21 : The subject of
rrehleattoiroinc;betQuwienetnilioarna'tsoryvieawnd; pchriiltoisciospmhyt;herraenofge;
of the orator's knowledge.
BOOK in 369
Ch. 1 : Apology fordryness and detail of the more
technical portion of the work ; writers on rhe-
toric ; Greeks; Romans. Ch. 2 : Origin oforatory.
Ch. 3: Divisions of the art; their order ; their
nature. Ch. 4: Are there three sorts of oratory
or more? Various views. Ch. 5: Distinction
bofetawceaeunse.thinCghs.a6n:dTwhoerdsstat;uqsueosrtbiaosniss;ofdaefcinaiutsieon;
a highly technical chapter. Ch. 7 : Panegyric.
Ch. 8: Deliberative oratory. Ch. 9: Forensic
Aoratcoaruyse; mthaeyptaurrtsn oofnaofnoerecnosnitcrosvpeeresciha.l pCohi.nt10or:
more nature of the cause to be first determined.
Ch.; 11: Next points to be determined; the
question, the modeofdefence,thepointfordecision,
the foundation of the case various views.
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