[437] Seeck’s ed. of the Letters, p. 309.

[438] I owe the suggestion that the Rhetores Graeci might serve as illustrations of the rhetorical methods of the time to Prof. J. A. Smith of Magdalen.

[439] Quintil. i. 9.

[440] Blümner, Privatalterthümer, 327.

[441] Quintil. i. 10. 1.

[442] Theon. Prog. i. Cf. Quintil, i. 9 ‘Adiciamus eorum (i.e. Grammaticorum) curae quaedam dicendi primordia, quibus aetates nondum rhetorem capientes instituant’.

[443] Ep. 985.

[444] De Theone Hermogene Aphthonioque Progymnasmatum Scriptoribus, p. 14.

[445] Ibid., p. 34.

[446] Ibid., p. 24.