[338] Protrepticon, 45 ff.
[339] Cf. Quintilian’s emphasis on starting with Homer (Inst. x. 1. 46). He is the poet par excellence: ‘omnibus eloquentiae partibus exemplum et ortum dedit’. Not to be able to read him is a mark of utter ignorance. Cf. viii. 5. 9; xii. 11. 21.
[340] Ibid. 46, 47.
[341] Verses 56-60.
[342] De Idol. 10. Cf. Aug. Confess. i. 14. 23.
[343] He had read Vergil ‘unum omnium maxime veterum auctorum atque haud scio an unicum’. Brandes, Corp. Scriptt. Lat. Eccl. Paul. Pell., p. 279.
[344] Ep. i. 9. 8; ii. 2. 2; iii. 13. 1; iv. 12. 1; Carm. xxiii. 147; xiii. 36.
[345] Ep. i. 11. 1; Carm. ix. 225; xxiii. 452.
[346] Ep. i. 9. 8; Carm. xxiii. 149.
[347] Ep. iv. 12. 1; Carm. ix. 213; xxiii. 130.