Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 10.1.90

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[90] We have suffered serious loss in the recent death of Valerius Flaccus. Saleius Bassus ¹ showed an ardent and genuinely poetic genius, but, like that of Serranus, it was not mellowed by years. Rabirius ² and Pedo ³ deserve to be studied by those who have the time. Lucan is fiery and passionate and remarkable for the grandeur of his general reflexions, but, to be frank, I consider that he is more suitable for imitation by the orator than by the poet.

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

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[90] multum in Valerio Flacco nuper amisimus. vehemens et poeticum ingenium Saleii Bassi fuit, nec ipsum senectute maturuit. Rabirius ac Pedo non indigni cognitione, si vacet. Lucanus ardens et concitatus et sententiis clarissimus et, ut dicam quod sentio, magis oratoribus quam poetis imitandus.

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1. Nothing is known of this poet save that he is highly praised by Tacitus in his Diblogues, and was patronized by Vespasian. The unfinished Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus survives.

2. A contemporary of Ovid, believed to be the author of a fragment on the battle of Actium, found at Hereulaneum.

3. C. Albinovanns Pedo wrote a poem on the voyage of Germanicus to the north of Germany. A fragment is preserved by Sen. Suas. i. 14.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 10.1.90

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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