a. moral force and philosophy XII. i, ii b. knowledge of law and history iii, iv c. physique v, vi d. dealings with clients vii-ix e. styles of oratory x f. when to leave the platform xi B. THE TERMS Quintilian’s survey is in the traditional terms of classical rhetoric. These demand the more attention because translation has often missed the specific meanings attached to recognized technical terms. “Institutes of Oratory,” never precisely rendering his title, is now almost meaningless. _Institutio Oratoria_ means The Teaching of Rhetoric and announces not so much a manual for students as a survey for teachers. Of the pedagogical terms, _grammatica_ and _grammaticus_ may still be rendered “grammar” and “grammarian” only if they are understood to have wider scope. _Prælectio_ (I. viii) describes the habitual introductory exposition of a passage of poetry by _grammaticus_, or less commonly of a passage of oratory by _rhetor_ (II. v). _Materia_, meaning generally “material,” means often technically (II. vi. vii) a prescribed outline, as French _matière_ still does in pedagogical use. _Declamatio_ (II. x) was quite different from “declamation.” It was speaking, usually extempore, on an assigned hypothetical case, and grew, as will appear below, from an exercise for boys to an exhibition of virtuosity by men. Of the five traditional parts of rhetoric (III. iii), the first, _inventio_, does not mean “invention”; it means, in Aristotelian language, the discovery of all the extrinsic means of persuasion, or more simply, survey of the material and forecast. _Dispositio_ (_collocatio_) refers not to the arrangement of details, but to the plan of the whole. _Elocutio_ means “elocution” in the sense borne by that word before the nineteenth century. It is sufficiently rendered by “style” and is always conceived in two aspects: (1) _electio_, the choice of words, including “figures of speech”; and (2) _compositio_, the arrangement of words in clauses and sentences, including rhythm and harmony—in a word, sentence-movement. _Compositio_ does not mean, though it is often translated, “composition” in the wide sense now current. For the latter the term is _dispositio_. _Memoria_ ranges far beyond memorizing. It embraces the speaker’s whole command of his material in the order of his constructive plan and in relation to rebuttal, and was most stressed for speeches unwritten. _Pronuntiatio_ and _actio_ cover the whole field of delivery, including all that is now often called “elocution,” from the placing of the voice to the handling of the body.