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With Latin text and a commentary, this is an edition of Book 2 of Quintilian's 'Education of the Orator'. It gives important insights into the way teaching was conducted in a rhetorical school in Rome in the first century AD, and discusses the various elementary rhetorical exercises, one by one.
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3 editions · 3 languages- Other · English · 2006Institutio oratoria.Oxford University Press · 435 pages · 9780199262656
- Other · Spanish · 1997M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae libri XII =Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca · 9788472994447
- Other · Latin · 1979Institution oratoire.Les Belles Lettres · 9782251113104
RhetoricOratoryCriticism and interpretationStyleAncient RhetoricEarly works to 1800Speeches, addresses, etc., LatinEducation