Excerpt from The Tenth and Twelfth Books of the Institutions of Quintilian: With Explanatory NotesThe experience of two years has shown not only that this author can be read with the ad vantages above suggested, but also that classes are better prepared by this study to take up the more peculiar and more difficult writers of the silver age, and especially Tacitus} The gulf, if I may so express it, between the Latinity of Livy and Tacitus, is in a manner bridged over by what may be called the intermediate or transitional style of Quintilian. For while, in the general principles of taste, and in simplicity, naturalness, and directness, he follows the models of the Ciceronian age, he necessarily uses the diction, and falls in with the idioms of his own time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.