John’s slighting of rhetoric cannot be explained merely by his preoccupation with logic. Why was he thus preoccupied in a consistent and progressive scheme of the whole Trivium? He begins with a _logica_ embracing all studies of words; he devotes a whole book to _grammatica_; in his last pages he is speaking of an _organon_ that shall be a minister to _eloquentia_. Yet _rhetorica_ he merely mentions when he must. That he was aware of its ancient importance in such a scheme as his is evident from his large use of Quintilian’s _Teaching of Rhetoric_. No other medieval writer gave this work more attention. The much-quoted chapter (I. xxiv) on _prælectio_ uses not only Quintilian’s ideas, but his very words;[38] and other correspondences are no less significant. The following list, though not complete, is typical. QUINTILIAN, _INST. ORAT._ _METALOGICUS_ I. iii. 3-5 II. viii. 865 B-C Illud ingeniorum ... decrescit. Hoc est quod ... decrescit. I. viii. 13-14 I. xxiv. 853 D-854 A In prælegendo grammaticus ... In prælegendo grammaticus ... memoriam agitet. memoriam auditorum. 17-21 855 B-D Præcipue vero illa ... Id quoque inter prima ... aliqua nescire. aliqua ignorare [with substitution of Augustine for Didymus, who is relegated to 864 C]. The correspondences above, verbatim for considerable stretches, involve here and there transpositions or other variations. The following are quotations or adaptations. I. iv. 5-6 I. xxv. 856 D Quo minus sunt ferendi ... in libro _De institutione oratoris quam ostentationis. Ne quis ..._ Ait ergo: “Ne quis igitur ... scientiam possit. [and the two sentences are quoted in reverse order].” II. iii. 3 II. vii. 864 D Propter quod Timotheum ... Refert Quintilianus [quotation with slight verbal variation]. II. iv. 5-7 IV. xxviii. 932 B Nec unquam ... quod exculpi. Teneræ tamen ætati ... improbitas conquiescat [correspondence evident in idea, occasionally in word]. X. i. 83 II. ii. 859 A Quid Aristotelem?... quid de eo dicat Quintilianus: clariorem putem. “Quid Aristotelem?... [exact quotation].” X. i. 125-131 I. xxii. 852 B