The conditions of Latin criticism 211 Cicero 213 His attitude to Lucretius 214 His Rhetorical works 217 His Critical Vocabulary 219 Horace 221 The _Ad Pisones_ 221 Its desultoriness 224 And arbitrary conventionality 225 Its compensations: Brilliancy 225 Typical spirit 226 And practical value 227 The _Satires_ and _Epistles_ 228 “Declamations” 230 Their subjects: epideictic 231 And forensic 231 Their influence on style 232 Seneca the Elder 234 The Suasories 234 The _Controversies_: their Introductions 236 Varro 240 CHAPTER II. THE CONTEMPORARIES OF QUINTILIAN. Petronius 242 Seneca the Younger 245 The satirists 248 Persius 248 The Prologue and First Satire 248 Examination of this 251 Juvenal 253 Martial 256 The style of the Epigrams 258 Précis of their critical contents 260 Statius 268 Pliny the Younger: Criticism on the Letters 270 The _Dialogue de Claris Oratoribus_ 280 Mr. Nettleship’s estimate of it 283 The general literary taste of the Silver Age 284 “Faultlessness” 285 Ornate or plain style 287 CHAPTER III. QUINTILIAN.