Excerpt from M. Fabii Quintiliani De Institutione Oratoria Libri Duo

IN the present volume, which is the tenth of this series, a selection is ofi'ered from Quintilian, a celebrated advocate and teacher of eloquence in the first cen tury of the Christian era. His treatise De Institutione Oratoria, the best of his works, contains a complete system of rhetoric, and exhibits the author as a practised master, a man of refined taste, and a close imitator of Cicero.

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