[924] Boissier, in blaming Quintilian for this change in rhetoric, seems somewhat unfair (_La fin du paganisme_, i. 219 ff.). He says Quintilian regarded the grammarian as an intruder, but Quintilian is merely protesting against the assumption of the rhetor’s duties by the grammarian (ii. 1. 2-6) and is quite willing to give him his due (ii. 1. 13). However, he does seem to attach an exaggerated importance to rhetoric (e.g. ii. 20) as opposed to general knowledge. [925] § 3 ἕλκει ἐκ τῶν ὤτων ἄπαντας δεδεμένους. [926] ‘Neque ego unquam facundiam exercui, et populus Romanus virtutem armis adfirmavit: sed quoniam apud vos verba plurimum valent....’, Tac. _Hist._ iv. 73. Cf. the commentator Pithoeus, _In Quintil. Declam._, p. 415, ‘etiam infelicissimis temporibus superfuisse Galliae oratores suos, cum urbi ipsi deessent’. [927] Comment. on _Ep. to Galatians_, ii; Migne, xxvi. 355. [928] _C. I. L._ xii. 1941. Cf. ibid. 1949, 2039, 2058; xiii. 1. 1. 128 (a fifth-century stone with twenty-four lines of poetry); xiii. 1. 1. 2395, 2397. [929] Jerome, _Ep._ 125. 6; Migne, xxii. 1075 ‘ubertatem Gallici nitoremque sermonis’. [930] _Ep._ 372 (ed. J. C. Wolf, Amsterdam, 1738). [931] Ibid. [932] _Ep._ iv. 17. 1. [933] ‘Heiden von hervorragender Stellung werden seit 450 in Gallien nicht mehr erwähnt, und unter den Christen gewann die strenge Mönchspartei einen immer grössern Einfluss und verdammte die Studien der Rhetoren’, _Kloster- u. Rhetorenschulen_, p. 31. [934] _De Idol._ x. [935] _Ep._ 21; Migne, xxii. 386. [936] ‘Ambrosio et Beato’ (_Corp. Scriptt. Eccl. Lat._ vi. 406) ‘ante scipiones et trabeas est pomposa recitatio’. [937] Ibid.; _Euchar._, p. 395. [938] ‘Ego illa quae vel commuto si sunt facta vel facio: quantisvis actionum tenebris involuto lux sufficit, quam legendo contulero. Ego sum per quam expectant homines reatum de turbida et innocentiam de serena ... ad meum compendium ubicumque est Romanus invigilat: fasces divitias honores si non ornamus, abiecta sunt: nos regna regimus’, ibid. ‘Ambrosio et Beato’, p. 407. [939] _Antidosis_, 253. [940] Ibid. 255 τοὺς κακοὺς ἐξελέγχομεν καὶ τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς ἐγκωμιάζομεν. [941] _De Orat._ ii. 9. 35 ‘vituperare improbos ... laudare bonos’. [942] ‘Quid quod declamationum nostrarum oblectatio vincit universa quae sapiunt, et opinionem quam conciliamus (perhaps a Vergilian reminiscence of _urbem quam statuo_) aeterna est?... De virorum fortium factis quod volumus creditur; actum nemo aestimat quod silemus. Poetica, iuris peritia, dialectica, arithmetica, cum me utantur quasi genetrice, me tamen adserente sunt pretio’, Ennod. _l.c._ Cf. Dictio XII. Rhetoric is the mainspring of literature. [943] ‘Istae (virtutes) tamen prae foribus quasi nutricem ceterarum anteponunt Grammaticen, quae adulescentium mentes sapore artificis et planae locutionis inliciat, et ad Tullianum calorem scintillis praefigurati vaporis adducat’, ibid., p. 405. [944] Ibid., p. 401. [945] Ibid., p. 305.