Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 2.4.42

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[42] Whether this type of exercise was actually invented by him I have failed to discover, as I have acknowledged in another work. ¹ But not even those who most strongly assert his claim to be the inventor, can produce any adequate authority in support of their opinion. As regards Latin teachers of rhetoric, of whom Plotius was the most famous, Cicero ² informs us that they came into existence towards the end of the age of Crassus.

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

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[42] an ab ipso id genus exercitationis sit inventum, ut alio quoque libro sum confessus, parum comperi; sed ne ii quidem, qui hoc fortissime adfirmant, ullo satis idoneo auctore nituntur. Latinos vero dicendi praeceptores extremis L. Crassi temporibus coepisse Cicero auctor est; quorum insignis maxime Plotius fuit.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. Probably the lost treatise on

The causes of the decline of oratory

( De causis corruptae eloquentiae).

2. See Cic. de Or. iii. 24, 93.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 2.4.42

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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