Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator, Volume 2

Quintilian

G. Bell and sons, 1891 - Oratory

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BOOK VII	1

Conjecture relates to fact and intention and to three divisions	18

Of definition it has something in common with conjecture	33

The consideration of quality may have regard to more points	42

Questions as to legality of proceedings 14 As to par	53

Of syllogism intimately connected with definition 1 2	60

Affinity between different states 14 Some precepts with	66

Style depends on the judicious choice of words and	78

BOOK X	246

Of imitation necessity of it and remarks upon it 113	277

Of writing utility of it 14 How and what we should	283

Observations on correction we must not indulge in it	291

Of thought and premeditation	298

Of the memory necessity of cultivating it 13 Its nature	332

Of delivery the effect of it and qualifications necessary	344

BOOK XII	390

Of ornament of style fondness for it in orators 14 It	86

Of amplification and diminution things are exaggerated or extenuated by the terms applied to them 1 2 Modes of 11011	108

Of striking thoughts 1 2 Of the modes of introducing them	115

Of tropes much disputation about them 13 Metaphor 4 5 Three motives for the use of metaphor 68 Four modes in 256	124

Of figures often confounded with tropes 13 Difference	144

Quintilian makes figures less numerous than Cicero and some	154

Of verbal figures are either grammatical or rhetorical lying	182

Of composition or cultivation of style authority of Cicero	212

An orator must study to maintain a high moral character	402

Proofs that a knowledge of the civil law is necessary to	410

At what age an orator should begin to plead in public	416

plead it he must examine all documents connected with it	422

Of different styles of oratory comparison of the varieties	431

See note on ii 15 1	439

The orator must leave off speaking in public before he fails	451

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Title	Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator, Volume 2 Bohn's classical library Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator, Quintilian
Author	Quintilian
Translated by	John Selby Watson
Publisher	G. Bell and sons, 1891
Original from	the University of Michigan
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