Ancient rhetoric and poetic : $b Interpreted from representative worksBaldwin, Charles Sears
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Ancient rhetoric and poetic : $b Interpreted from representative works
Baldwin, Charles Sears
Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Poetics -- History -- To 1500; Rhetoric, Ancient
[12] Wilkins (note _ad loc._) evidently takes _composite_ in a general
sense as referring to composition (_dispositio_, _collocatio_); for he
says: “The definition includes all the five main divisions of oratory,”
and _dispositio_ is not otherwise mentioned. But for the apparent
intention to include all five parts, _composite_ would more readily
suggest _compositio_, which is the technical name for sentence movement,
one of the subdivisions of _elocutio_. _Compositio_ is consistently used
in this special sense; but whether _composite_ is so meant here or not,
Cicero intended four of the five parts, if not five; and that suffices
to establish his allusion to the traditional division. The issue between
Crassus and Antonius has little to do with _dispositio_; it concerns the
scope of _inventio_.
For the division of rhetoric see pages 21, 65, the table in foot-note 1a
to Chapter V, and Wilkins’s introduction, page 57.
[13] I. xvi.
[14] xviii.
[15] xix. 86.
[16] 87.
[17] xx. 91.
[18] 92.
[19] _disertus._ I. xxi. 94.
[20] _Eloquentem vero qui mirabilius et magnificentius augere posset
atque ornare quæ vellet, omnisque omnium rerum, quæ ad dicendum
pertinerent fontis animo ac memoria contineret._
[21] I. xxv-xxxv.
[22] xxxiii. 149 seq.
[23] xxxvi-xlvii.
[24] xlix. 213. _Oratorem autem, quoniam de eo quærimus, equidem non
facio eundem quem Crassus, qui mihi visus est omnem omnium rerum atque
artium scientiam comprehendere uno oratoris officio ac nomine; atque eum
puto esse qui et verbis ad audiendum iucundis et sententiis ad probandum
accommodatis uti possit in causis forensibus atque communibus: hunc ego
appello oratorem eumque esse præterea instructum voce et actione et
lepore quodam volo._
[25] lxi. 260.
[26] xxiv-lxxi.
[27] lxxii-lxxxv.
[28] lxxxvi-lxxxviii.
[29] xx. 84.
[30] _Animus acer et præsens et acutus idem atque versutus invictos viros
efficit._
[31] xxi. 88.
[32] xxii.
[33] Tacitus (_Dial._ 34) says that the older method (of Cicero’s time),
supplanted in his own time by the schools of the _declamatores_, was
apprenticeship.
[34] xxiv. 99.
[35] xxiv. 101.
[36] 102.
[37] 103.
[38] xxiv-xxvi, 104-110. For the more detailed presentation of Quintilian
see Chapter iv, page 74.
[39] xxv. 108.
[40] xxvii. 114.
[41] Hendrickson (Amer. Journ. Philol. xxvi. 260) finds this threefold
division first here. The usual terms are _docere_, _conciliare_, _movere_.
[42] xxvii. 117.
[43] xxx. 132.
[44] xxxi. 133.
[45] xxxviii. 157.
[46] xxxix. cf. above, xxvii. 117.
[47] xlii-lxxi.
[48] xlii. 178.
[49] xliii. 182.
[50] xlv. 190.
[51] xlvi. 191.
[52] xlix-liii. 213.
[53] liii. 214.
[54] liv-lxxi.
[55] lxxii-lxxxv.
[56] lxxvi.
[57] lxxvii.
[58] lxxviii.
[59] lxxix.
[60] lxxx.
[61] lxxxii-lxxxv.
[62] lxxxvi-lxxxviii.
[63] lxxxviii. 359. _verborum memoria, quæ minus est nobis necessaria ...
rerum memoria propria est oratoris._
[64] xv-xxxvi.
[65] xxxviii-xlii.
[66] xliii-liv.
[67] lvi-lxi.
[68] x. 37.
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