Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator. In Twelve Books, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1913 - Latin prose literature |
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accordingly accused adopted advocate allow antonomasia appear arguments Attic bacchius better Burmann Buttmann Cæsar called Capperonier catachresis cause centumviri character Cicero commencement Comp composition conjecture consider declamation defence delivery Demosthenes disinherited Domitius Afer effect elegant eloquence example excellence exordium expression father fault feelings figures frequently Gesner gesture give Greeks hand honourable hyperbaton imitation intention Isocrates judge Julius Cæsar killed kind language Latin learning Livy Lysias matter means memory Menander metaphor mind mode nature object observed orator oratory ourselves Ovid particular passage person phrases pleader pleading poets proper prose quæ question Quintilian quod reason reference regard remarks Sallust sect sense sentence signified similar sometimes sort Spalding speak speaker species speech spondee style suppose syllables synecdoche term things thought tion tone trochee tropes Turnebus Verr verse viii Virgil voice whole words writing
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Page 110 - ... nothing that at your arrival all those seats were vacated? that all the men of consular rank, who had often been marked out by you for slaughter, the very moment you sat down, left that part of the benches bare and vacant? With what feelings do you think you ought to bear this? On my...
Page 392 - Bc to have been born dumb, and to have been left destitute of reasoning powers, than to have received endowments from providence only to turn them to the destruction of one another. 3. My judgment carries me still further; for I not only say that he who would answer my idea of an orator, must be a good man, but that no man, unless he be good, can ever be an orator.
Page 353 - That delivery is elegant, which is supported by a voice that is easy, powerful, fine, flexible, firm, sweet, well-sustained, clear, pure, that cuts the air and penetrates the ear ; for there is a kind of voice naturally qualified to make itself heard, not by its strength, but by a peculiar excellence of tone ; a voice which is obedient to the will of the speaker, susceptible of every variety of sound and inflexion...
Page 87 - But this grace of style may contribute in no small degree to the success of a cause, for those who listen with pleasure are both more attentive and more ready to believe: they are very frequently captivated with pleasure, and sometimes hurried away in admiration. Thus the glitter of a sword strikes something of terror into the eyes; and thunder-storms themselves would not alarm us so much as they do if it were their force only, and not also their flame, that was dreaded. Cicero, accordingly, in one...
Page 266 - Ennius we may venerate, as we venerate groves sacred from their antiquity; groves in which gigantic and aged oaks affect us not so much by their beauty as by the religious awe with which they inspire us. There are other poets nearer to our own times, and better suited to promote the object of which we are speaking.
Page 69 - ... pave the way for these questions; what arguments the judge will accept at once, and to what he requires to be led by degrees; whether we should refute our opponent's arguments as a whole or in detail; whether we should reserve emotional appeals for the peroration or distribute them throughout the whole speech; whether we should speak first of law or of equity; whether we should first advance (or refute) charges as to past offences or the charges connected with the actual trial; or, again, if...
Page 338 - I pass over the fact that there are certain things which it is impossible to represent by symbols, as, for example, conjunctions. We may, it is true, like shorThand writers, have definite symbols for everything, and may select an infinite number of places to recall all the words contained in the five books of the second pleading against Verres, and we may even remember them all as if they were deposits placed in safe-keeping. But will not the flow of our speech inevitably be impeded by the double...
Page 256 - Homer; for as he says that the might of rivers and the courses of springs take their rise from the ocean, so has he himself given a model and an origin for every species of eloquence. No man has excelled him in sublimity on great subjects, no man in propriety on small ones. He is at once copious and concise, pleasing and forcible; admirable at one time for exuberance, and at another for brevity; eminent not only for poetic, but for oratorical excellence. To say nothing of his laudatory, exhortatory,...
Page 383 - Arb. c. 17 : manibus inter se usque ad articulorum strepitum contriiis, &c., and c. 23, infractii momibus congemitit. tinue such actions, if the judge be still unprepared to give us his attention. 159. As to the attitude, it should be erect, the feet a little apart, in similar positions, or the left a slight degree in advance ; the knees straight, but not . so as to seem stiff ; the shoulders kept down ; the countenance grave, not anxious, or stolid, or languid ; the arms at a moderate distance from...
Page 441 - Romans, as it were, in eloquence ? Surely those, then, must satisfy us in that sort of style, than whom none can be imagined more excellent in it. 40. I must observe further, that some think there is no natural 'eloquence but such as is of a character with the language of ordinary conversation, the language in which we address our friends, wives, children, and servants, and which is intended only to express our thoughts, and requires no foreign or elaborate ornament...