Oratio libera- which he would allow to be called a figure only if it is 2 Quintilian, discussing arguments,Ĭriticizes Cornificius for calling a Conclusion from Incompatibles contrarium contrariumĪppears in our treatise as a figure (of diction). Cornificius is mentioned, and always withĭisapproval, in the following places: In 5.10. These rely on citations in Quintilian which correspond Who have upheld the theory of Cornifician authorship are Johannes Tolkiehn, Jahresb. With assurance to Cornificius was Petrus Victorius in 1582 Regius had vacillated,Īssigning it variously to Cornificius, Verginius Flavus, and Timolaüs. Rhetorician named Cornificius.b The first to ascribe the work Reputable scholars have made out a case, at first glance attractive, for assigning it to a It is wisest, I believe, to ascribe the work to an unknown author, although a good many Of scholars at intervals ever since, but has never been settled to the satisfaction of all. The question of authorship has occupied the attention Then Raphael Regius in 1491 positivelyĭivorced the work from Cicero's name. The first to doubt that the treatise was worthy of CiceronianĪuthorship was Lorenzo Valla (middle saec. Although the belief in CiceronianĪuthorship has still not entirely disappeared, all the recent editors agree that theĪttribution is erroneous. Marius Victorinus, Servius, and Cassiodorus show noĪcquaintance with any Ciceronian work of this nature. Unable to discover whether the term barbarismus was used before the Augustan age cf, (who often cites De Inventione),d Usually under the title Libri Rhetorici. Known that these were identical with, or akin to, Ciceronian notions, he would not have where he deals with the three Types of Issue (cf, our treatise, L x. the like principle for the Enumeration in our treatise, 1. where he considers the view that the propositions in a Partition should not exceed Quintilian c It is argued, for example, that if Quintilian at 4.ĥ. Instances, as will be seen later, are in sharp contrast with those of De Inventione.įurthermore, the thought and style of the work are unworthy of the mature Cicero. The picture weĭraw of our author does not fit the early Cicero, and his doctrines in many crucial Incomplete " essays of his youth is obviously to the two books De Inventione. Our treatise the disparaging reference in De Oratore 1. But Cicero never refers to any work of his which might be identified with Curtius, Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter, Bern, 1948, b For like parallel designations of literary works m the MiddleĪges, see E. Treatise to replace his juvenile De Inventione, it was later called Rhetorica Nova. Twelfth century called Rhetorica Secunda perhaps because of a belief that Cicero wrote the gave it a prestige which it enjoyed for over a On the belief in Ciceronian authorship, appears in the MSS. Resemblance to De Inventione, and may have interpreted the inchoata ac rudia of De He may have thought the untitled work Cicero's because of its Jerome's time, made this ascription may also have been responsible for the division of time on, as a work by Cicero a The uncritical editor who, before The fact that the treatise appeared, from Principles, not a host of particular illustrations of a given point.a See Schanz, ed. Terms, and of specially selected examples he seeks conciseness by keeping practical needsĪlways in view, by scrupulously avoiding irrelevant matter, and by presenting methods and He seeks clarity through the use of Roman Writer's specific aims are to achieve clarity and conciseness, and to complete theĮxposition of his subject with reasonable speed. It is a technical manual, systematic and formal inĪrrangement its exposition is bald, but in greatest part clear and precise. Our author, however, gives us a Greek art in Latin dress, combining a Incomplete De Inventione, which belongs close to it in time, this work reflects Hellenistic that we have, in the treatiseĪddressed to Gaius Herennius, the oldest Latin Art preserved entire. Us, and it is from the second decade of the first century B.C. But the books by Cato, Antonius, and the other Roman writers have not come down to Younger Scipio, and Latin treatises on the subject were in circulation from the time of the INTRODUCTION The Greek art of rhetoric was first naturalized at Rome in the time of the The following text is encoded in accordance with EpiDoc standards and with the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts Under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalĪd C. Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)
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