The _Institutes_ 289 Preface 291 Book I.: Elementary Education 291 And Grammar 291 Books II.-VII. only relevant now and then 292 How to lecture on an author 293 Wit 294 Book VIII.: Style 295 Perspicuity 296 Elegance 297 Books VIII., IX.: Tropes and Figures 299 Composition 304 Prose rhythm 304 Book X.: Survey of Classical Literature 306 Greek: Homer and other Epic poets 307 The Lyrists 308 Drama 308 The Historians 309 The orators and philosophers 309 Latin—Virgil 310 Other epic and didactic poets 310 Elegiac and miscellaneous 311 Drama 311 History 312 Oratory—Cicero 313 Philosophy—Cicero and Seneca 313 Minor counsel of the Tenth Book 313 Books XI., XII.: The styles of oratory 314 “Atticism” 315 Literary quality of Greek and Latin 315 Quintilian’s critical _ethos_ 317 CHAPTER IV. LATER WRITERS. Aulus Gellius: the _Noctes Atticæ_ 323 Macrobius: the _Saturnalia_ 329 Servius on Virgil 334 Other commentators 341 Ausonius 342 The _Anthologia Latina_ 344