Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 10.6.4

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[4] For this reason I must postpone some of my remarks to the portion of this work reserved for the treatment of that topic. ¹ At length, however, our powers will have developed so far that the man who is not hampered by lack of natural ability will by dint of persistent study be enabled, when it comes to speaking, to rely no less on what he has thought out than what he has written out and learnt by heart. At any rate, Cicero records that Metrodorus of Scepsis, ² Empylus of Rhodes, ³ and our own Hortensius ⁴ were able to reproduce what they had thought out word for word when it came to actual pleading.

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

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[4] eo tandem ¹ pervenit, ut is, cui non refragetur ingenium, acri studio adiutus tantum consequatur, ut ei tam quae cogitarit quam quae scripserit atque edidicerit in dicendo fidem servent. Cicero certe Graecorum Metrodorum Scepsium et Empylum Rhodium nostrorumque Hortensium tradidit, quae cogitaverant, ad verbum in agendo retulisse.

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1. XI. ii. 1 sqq.

2. A philosopher of the Academic school, contemporary with Cicero, cp. de Or. ii. 360.

3. Empylus is not mentioned elsewhere.

4. Cp. Brut. 301.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 10.6.4

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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