Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 2.17.8

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[8] For my part I am not concerned with the date when oratory began to be taught. Even in Homer we find Phoenix ¹ as an instructor not only of conduct but of speaking, while a number of orators are mentioned, the various styles are represented by the speeches of three of the chiefs ² and the young men are set to contend among themselves in contests of eloquence: ³ moreover lawsuits and pleaders are represented in the engravings on the shield of Achilles. ⁴

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

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[8] nos porro, quando coeperit huius rei doctrina, non laboramus exquirere, quanquam apud Homerum et praeceptorem Phoenicem cum agendi tum etiam loquendi et oratores plures et omne in tribus ducibus orationis genus et certamina quoque proposita eloquentiae inter iuvenes invenimus, quin in caelatura clipei Achillis et lites sunt et actores.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. Il. ix. 432.

2. i.e. the copious style by Nestor, the plain by Menelaus, the intermediate by Ulysses.

3. Il. xv. 284.

4. Il. xviii. 497 sqq.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 2.17.8

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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