And practical value[227]
The Satires and Epistles[228]
“Declamations”[230]
Their subjects: epideictic[231]
And forensic[231]
Their influence on style[232]
Seneca the Elder[234]
The Suasories[234]
The Controversies: their Introductions[236]
Varro[240]

CHAPTER II.

THE CONTEMPORARIES OF QUINTILIAN.

Petronius[242]
Seneca the Younger[245]
The satirists[248]
Persius[248]
The Prologue and First Satire[248]
Examination of this[251]
Juvenal[253]
Martial[256]
The style of the Epigrams[258]
Précis of their critical contents[260]
Statius[268]
Pliny the Younger: Criticism on the Letters[270]
The Dialogue de Claris Oratoribus[280]
Mr. Nettleship’s estimate of it[283]
The general literary taste of the Silver Age[284]
“Faultlessness”[285]
Ornate or plain style[287]

CHAPTER III.

QUINTILIAN.

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.