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 ).

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

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.

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.

Quintilian was attempting to modify the prevailing imperial style of oratory with his book, and Seneca was the principal figure in that style ’ s tradition.

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 ".

Quintilian asserts that he was far superior to any writer of tragedies he had known, and Tacitus expresses a high opinion of his literary abilities.

It is doubtful whether he practised medicine himself, and although Celsus seems to describe and recommend his own medical observations sanctioned by experience, Quintilian says that his volumes included all sorts of literary matters, and even agriculture and military tactics.

Similarly, Quintilian discussed loci argumentorum, but did not put them in the form of questions.

In its present form it is incomplete, as is clearly shown by the express testimony of Quintilian ( Inst.

However the concept itself ( as opposed to the term ) can be traced back millennia earlier, to Quintilian and classical rhetoric: ' The " pat excuse " is the color, a frequent technical term among the rhetoricians for any approach that would present an action in the most favourable possible light '.

* Quintilian retires from teaching and from pleading, to compose his great work on the training of the orator ( Institutio Oratoria ).

Quintilian retired from teaching and pleading in 88, during the reign of Domitian.

Apart from Seneca he is mentioned by Tacitus, Quintilian, Suetonius and Dio Cassius.

In Les Femmes Illustres ( 1642 ), Conversations Sur Divers Sujets ( 1680 ), and Conversations Nouvelles sur Divers Sujets, Dediees Au Roy ( 1684 ), Madeleine de Scudéry adapted classical rhetorical theory from Cicero, Quintilian, Aristotle, and the sophists to a theory of salon conversation and letter writing.

Image: Marbled endpaper, between 1720 and 1770, from Quintilian ed.

The word is drawn from the figure prosopoeia in classical rhetoric, introduced by Quintilian, in which an absent or imagined person is figured forth — the " face created " as the Greek suggests — in words, as if present.

The so-called weak defense ( which Quintilian makes as well as Ramus ) suggests that rhetoric is separate from philosophy and one first becomes a good person and then can add good speaking on top ( 158 ).

Though he calls for imitation, he also urges the orator to use this knowledge to inspire his own original invention ( Quintilian 10. 2. 4 ).

Quintilian references many authors in the Institutio Oratoria before providing his own definition of rhetoric ( Quintilian 10. 1. 3 ).

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

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

Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes ' name in Institutio Oratoria 3. 4. 9, as the Italian Renaissance philologist Piero Vettori first recognized.

Quintilian, when a young man, heard Afer, and frequently speaks of him as the most distinguished orator of his age.

He says that Afer and Julius Africanus were the best orators he had heard, and that he prefers the former to the latter, Quintilian refers to a work of his On Testimony, to one entitled Dicta, and to some of his orations, of which those on behalf of Domitilla, or Cloantilla, and Volusenus Catulus seem to have been the most celebrated.

The emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Theodosius I, the philosopher Seneca, and the poets Martial, Quintilian, and Lucan were born in Spain.

Quintilian composed the most complete work on ancient education that we possess.

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.

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.

He had a marked influence on Cicero and Quintilian, and through them, on the entire educational system of the west.

Quintilian ( 35-100 AD ) began his career as a pleader in the courts of law ; his reputation grew so great that Vespasian created a chair of rhetoric for him in Rome.

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.

If the influence of Cicero and Quintilian permeates the Ratio Studiorum, it is through the lenses of devotion and the militancy of the Counter-Reformation.

* Quintilian.

He concentrated his studies on Cicero and Quintilian, and during his university years added French and Greek to his ever-growing list of languages.

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

But the gossip, not discouraged by Terence, lived and throve ; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot.