Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 10.1.118

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[118] There are many other clever speakers, but it would be a long task to deal with them all. Domitius Afer ¹ and Julius Africanus ² are by far the most distinguished. The former is superior in art and in every department of oratory, indeed he may he ranked with the old orators without fear of contradiction. The latter shows greater energy, but is too great a precisian in the choice of words, prone to tediously long periods and somewhat extravagant in his metaphors. There have been distinguished talents even of more recent date.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[118] sunt alii multi diserti,(quos persequi longum est. eorum quos uiderim Domitius Afer et Iulius Africanus longe praestantissimi. arte ille et toto genere dicendi praeferendus et quem in numero veterum habere non timeas; hic concitatior, sed in cura verborum nimius et compositione nonnunquam longior et translationibus parum modicus. erant clara et nuper ingenia.

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1. Domitius Afer ( d. 59 A.D.), the leading orator of the reigns of Tiberius and his successors.

2. Iulius Africanus, a Gaul, who flourished in the reign of Nero.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 10.1.118

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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