In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

The term encyclopaedia was coined by 15th century humanists who misread copies of their texts of Pliny and Quintilian, and combined the two Greek words " enkyklios paideia " into one word.

Aristotle and Quintilian discussed oratory, and the subject, with definitive rules and models, was emphasised as a part of a liberal arts education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

At the same time that rhetoric was becoming divorced from political decision making, rhetoric rose as a culturally vibrant and important mode of entertainment and cultural criticism in a movement known as the " second sophistic ," a development which gave rise to the charge ( made by Quintilian and others ) that teachers were emphasizing style over substance in rhetoric.

The word satura as used by Quintilian, however, was used to denote only Roman verse satire, a strict genre that imposed hexameter form, a narrower genre than what would be later intended as satire.

Quintilian famously said that satura, that is a satire in hexameter verses, was a literary genre of wholly Roman origin ( satura tota nostra est ).

To Quintilian, the satire was a strict literary form, but the term soon escaped from the original narrow definition.

The first Roman to discuss satire critically was Quintilian, who invented the term to describe the writings of Lucilius.

There he was taught rhetoric by Quintilian, a great teacher and author, and Nicetes Sacerdos of Smyrna.

The ancient historian Cassius Dio writes that Berenice was at the height of her power during this time, and if it can be any indication as to how influential she was, Quintilian records an anecdote in his Institutio Oratoria where, to his astonishment, he found himself pleading a case on Berenice's behalf where she herself presided as the judge.

Fond of drinking, convivial company and vain displays of wealth, this aristocrat's proud and capricious dealings with Simonides are demonstrated in a traditional account related by Cicero and Quintilian, according to which the poet was commissioned to write a victory ode for a boxer.

Quintilian dismisses the story as a fiction because " the poet nowhere mentions the affair, although he was not in the least likely to keep silent on a matter which brought him such glory ..".

Ovid's Metamorphoses was an immediate success ( although Quintilian considered Ovid's tragedy Medea his best work ), its popularity threatening that of Virgil's Aeneid.

Quintilian was less enthusiastic.

According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.

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Quintilian had also survived under several emperors ; the reigns of Vespasian and Titus were relatively peaceful, but Domitian was reputed to be difficult even at the best of times.

The emperor does not appear to have taken offence ; in the year 90, Quintilian was made tutor of Domitian's two grand-nephews and heirs.

He was more recent than many of the authors mentioned by Quintilian, but his reputation within the post-classical style necessitated both his mention and the criticism or back-handed praise that is given to him.

A short poem, published in 86, was addressed to him, and opened, " Quintilian, greatest director of straying youth, / you are an honour, Quintilian, to the Roman toga ".

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

Like Cicero, Quintilian also believes that “ history and philosophy can increase an orator ’ s command of copia and style ;" they differ in that Quintilian “ features the character of the orator, as well as the art ” ( Walzer, 36-7 ).

Quintilian believed that “ his style is for the most part corrupt and extremely dangerous because it abounds in attractive faults ” ( Quintilianus, 10. 1. 129 ).

He wrote that Quintilian, while little-read in Mill's day due to " his obscure style and to the scholastic details of which many parts of his treatise are made up ," was " seldom sufficiently appreciated.

“ The style is the man: Seneca, Tacitus, and Quintilian ’ s canon .” Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature.

His clear, finished and yet unaffected style made him a great favourite and placed him, in the judgment of Quintilian, ahead of other elegiac writers.

For instance, Quintilian in his Institutio Oratoria deemed the plain style suitable for instruction, the middle for moving oration, and the high for charming discourse.

Cicero, Quintilian, epideictic oratory ), it continued into the Enlightenment.

Quintilian extolled him as lex orandi (" the standard of oratory "), and Cicero said about him that inter omnis unus excellat (" he stands alone among all the orators "), and he also acclaimed him as " the perfect orator " who lacked nothing.

The work ends with a dissertation on the decay of oratory, a typical subject of the period in which authors such as Tacitus, Petronius and Quintilian, who also dealt with the subject, were still alive.

* Love songs: Almost all Alcaeus ' amorous verses, mentioned with disapproval by Quintilian above, have vanished without trace.

They were considered by some ancients to be frequently polluted with disgraceful amours, which, according to Quintilian, were only a representation of the conduct of Afranius.

In the Institutes, Quintilian organizes rhetorical study through the stages of education that an aspiring orator would undergo, beginning with the selection of a nurse.

Quintilian ’ s definition of rhetoric shares many similarities with that of Cicero, one being the importance of the speaker ’ s moral character ( Logie ).

In Book II, Quintilian sides with Plato ’ s assertion in the Phaedrus that the rhetorician must be just: “ In the Phaedrus, Plato makes it even clearer that the complete attainment of this art is even impossible without the knowledge of justice, an opinion in which I heartily concur " ( Quintilian 2. 15. 29 ).

This enthusiasm for Quintilian spread with humanism itself, reaching northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries.

( Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.

30 ); and Quintilian does not hesitate to put him on a level with Thucydides ( x. 1 ),

He also edited a number of classical texts for the Teubner series, the most important of which are Tacitus ( 4th ed., 1883 ); Rhetores Latini minores ( 1863 ); Quintilian ( 1868 ); Sulpicius Severus ( 1866 ); Minucius Felix together with Firmicus Maternus De errore ( 1867 ); Salvianus ( 1877 ) and Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae ( 1878 ).

Ursula Kirkendale argued for a close connection with the twelve-volume rhetorical manual Institutio Oratoria of the Roman orator Quintilian, whom Frederick the Great admired.

Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.

Lectures draws on the classic works of theorists such as Quintilian and Cicero combined with the modern works of Addison, Burke, and Lord Kames to become one of the first whole language guides.

But the manner in which Agnon is mentioned by Quintilian shows that he is a rhetorician, who lived at a much later period than the 4th century BC suggested by an identification with Agnonides.

He has been variously identified with Julius Florus, a distinguished orator and uncle of Julius Secundus, an intimate friend of Quintilian ( Instit.

Persius, Juvenal and Quintilian vouch for the admiration with which he was regarded in the first century of the empire.

* the statement of the case, or narratio -- Quintilian explained that in the narratio " We shall for instance represent a person accused of theft as covetous, accused of adultery as lustful, accused of homicide as rash, or attribute the opposite qualities to these persons if we are defending them ; further we must do the same with place, time and the like.

Quintilian credited him with a vigorous and poetical genius and Julius Secundus, one of the speakers in Tacitus ' Dialogus de Oratoribus styles him a perfect poet and most illustrious bard.