Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 12.10.21

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[21] Consequently I regard those critics as committing a serious error who regard only those authors as Attic who, while they are simple, lucid and expressive, are none the less content with a certain frugality of eloquence, and keep their hands modestly within the folds of their cloaks. For what author is there who answers to this conception? I am prepared to grant that there is Lysias, since he is the favourite model of the admirers of this school, and such an admission will save us from being referred to Coccus ¹ and Andocides.

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

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[21] quapropter milii falli multum videntur, qui solos esse Atticos credunt tenues et lucidos et significantes sed quadam eloquentiae frugalitate contentos ac semper manum intra pallium continentes. nam quis erit hic Atticus? sit Lysias; hunc enim amplectuntur amatores istius nominis modum. non igitur iam usque ad Coccum et Andocidem remittemur. interrogare tamen velim, an Isocrates Attice dixerit.

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1. The only Coccus known to us is stated by Suidas to have been a pupil of Isocrates, whereas we should here have expected Quintilian to refer to some orator of the 5th century contemporary with Andocides (closing decades of 4th century).

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 12.10.21

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