Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 10.1.124

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[124] Cornelius Celsus, ¹ a follower of the Sextii, ² wrote a number of philosophical works, which have considerable grace and polish. Among the Stoics Plautus ³ is useful as giving a knowledge of the subject.

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

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[124] scripsit non parum multa Cornelius Celsus, Sextios secutus, non sine cultu ac nitore. Plautus in Stoicis rerum cognitioni utilis. in Epicureis levis quidem, sed non iniucundus tamen auctor est Catius.

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1. An encyclopedic writer under Augustus and Tiberius. His medical treatises have survived. He wrote on oratory also, and is not infrequently quoted by Quintilian.

2. The Sextii, father and son, were Pythagorean philosophers of the Augustan age, with something of a Stoic tendency as well.

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Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 10.1.124

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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