CHAPTER IV.Of Revision.De Emendatione.IV:1IV. Sequitur emendatio, pars studiorum longe utilissima; neque enim sine causa creditum est stilum non minus agere, cum delet. Huius autem operis est adicere, detrahere, mutare. Sed facilius in iis simpliciusque iudicium quae replenda vel deicienda sunt; premere vero tumentia, humilia extollere, luxuriantia adstringere, inordinata digerere, soluta componere, exultantia coercere duplicis operae; nam et damnanda sunt quae placuerant et invenienda quae fugerant.§ 1.creditum est:1 §48. The perfect indicates that the opinion was adopted and is still maintained. Hor. Ep. i. 2, 5 cur ita crediderim (= credam): cp. credidi2 §20above.non minus, sc. quam cum scribit. Hild sees a similar ellipse in1 §30potius habenti periculosus, sc. quam utilis. But see notead loc.replenda ... deiciendacorrespond toadicere ... detrahere. This use is suggested by the idea oflevelling. Cp. Digest xlii. 1, 4 lege repletur quod sententiae deest: Ovid, Her. x. 37 quod voci deerat plangore replebam.premere, ‘prune’: v. onpressus1 §§44,46: Hor. Sat. i. 10, 69 Detereret sibi multa, recideret omne quod ultra Perfectum traheretur.luxuriantia, ‘exuberance’: Hor. Ep. ii. 2, 122 luxuriantia compescet, where Wilkins cites this passage, also de Orat. ii. 96 luxuries quaedam quae stilo depascenda est, i.e. must be kept down by the practice of writing.inordinata: of expression, viii. 2, §23 nam si ... neque plura neque inordinata aut indistincta dixerimus, erunt dilucida et neglegenter quoque audientibus aperta: ix. 4, 27 felicissimus tamen sermo est cui et rectos ordo et apta iunctura et cum his numerus opportune cadens contigit.soluta componere= numeris adstringere verba: ‘reducing to metre what is unrhythmical.’ Cp. carmen solutum1 §31. Forcomponere, see on1 §44.exultantia: cp.2 §15, where the opposition ofcompositiandexultantesshows that the latter denotes the extreme,—the excess of that of whichsolutusis the defect. Cp. Cic. Orat. §195. The three terms might be arranged in a series: soluta, composita, exultantia,—the last denoting ‘combinations of words producing an undignified, skipping, or dancing movement’ (Frieze).IV:2Nec dubium est optimum esse emendandi genus, si scripta in aliquod tempus reponantur, ut ad ea post intervallum velut nova atque aliena redeamus, ne nobis scripta nostra tamquam recentes fetus blandiantur.§ 2.emendandi genus. Likevisandratio(see on1 §1),genusis used with the gerund to supply the place of a noun (hereemendatio): cp. ix. 3, 35 est et illud repetendi genus (‘this too is repetition’): Cic. pro Rab. Post. neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabatur: and even with the perf. part. pass. in Verr. ii. §141 non mihi praetermittendum videtur ne illud quidem genus pecuniae conciliatae: Nägelsbach, p. 130.in aliquod tempus. Hor. A. P. 388 nonumque prematur in annum: advice to which Quintilian alludes in his dedicatory letter to Tryphon, dabam iis otium ut refrigerato inventionis amore diligenter repetitos tamquam lector perpenderem.recentes fetus:1 §16nova illa velutnascentia:3 §7omnia nostra dum nascuntur placent.IV:3Sedneque hoc contingere semper potest praesertim oratori, cui saepius scribere ad praesentes usus necesse est, et ipsa emendatio finem habet. Sunt enim qui ad omnia scripta tamquam vitiosa redeant et, quasi nihil fas sit rectum esse quod primum est, melius existiment quidquid est aliud, idque faciant quotiens librum in manus resumpserunt, similes medicis etiam integra secantibus. Accidit itaque ut cicatricosa sint et exsanguia et cura peiora.§ 3.finem habet: there must be a limit. Cp. §4.sunt enim: theincreduliof3 §11: quibus nihil sit satis, &c.medicis. This is not flattering to the profession in Quintilian’s day: he may have owed the doctors a grudge. Dion. Hal. ad Cn. Pomp. vi. (p. 785 R.) has a similar figure.accidit itaque. Livy sometimes has itaque in the second place, Cicero never.cicatricosa, ‘covered with sutures’: ‘patchwork.’exsanguia: cp.1 §115, where he says of Calvus ‘nimia contra se calumnia verum sanguinem perdidisse.’cura peiora: cp. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxv. 10 nocere saepe nimiam diligentiam: Plin. Ep. ix. 35, 2 nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat.IV:4Sit ergo aliquando quod placeat aut certe quod sufficiat, ut opus poliat lima, non exterat. Temporis quoque esse debet modus. Nam quod Cinnae Smyrnam novem annis accepimus scriptam, et Panegyricum Isocratis, qui parcissime, decem annis dicunt elaboratum, ad oratorem nihil pertinet, cuius nullum erit, si tam tardum fuerit, auxilium.§ 4.lima: Hor. A. P. 291 limae labor et mora: Plin. Ep. v. 10, §3 perfectum opus absolutumque est, nec iam splendescit lima sed atteritur.nam: cp.1 §§9,50.quod: see on1 §60.Cinnae Smyrnam. C. Helvius Cinna, a friend of Catullus, was the author of a poem entitled Smyrna (Zmyrna), in which he described the incestuous love of Myrrha for her father Cinyras, the subject being treated in the fashion of the Alexandrian poets. (Cp. Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 210 §§2-3.) Vergil seems to have admired him (Ecl. ix. 35): but the elaborate care he spent over his poem, which was after all not a long one, resulted in obscurity: fuit autem liber obscurus adeo ut et nonnulli eius aetatis grammatici in eum scripserint magnamque ex eius enarratione sint gloriam consecuti. Quod obscurus fuerit etiam Martialis ostendit in illo versu (x. 21, 4): iudice te melior Cinna Marone fuit,—Philargyrius, quoted by Teuffel. Cp. Catullus xcv Zmyrna mei Cinnae nonam post denique messem Quam coeptast nonamque edita post hiememst. Horace’s nonum ... prematur in annum is believed to contain a direct reference to the Smyrna.Panegyricum Isocratis. This speech received its name from the fact that it was written for recitation at one of the greatπανηγύρειςor festal assemblies, such as the Panhellenic festival at Olympia. It was probably published in the latter part of the summer ofB.C.380, and consisted of an appeal to the Greeks to join in an expedition against Persia, under the joint command of Athens and Sparta.parcissime, sc. dicunt: cp.1 §101ut parcissime dicam. Quintilian seems here to be following Dion. Hal. de Comp. Verb. c. 25 (Reiske v. p. 208)ὁ μὲν γὰρ τὸν πανηγυρικὸν λόγον, ὡς οἱ τὸν ἐλάχιστον χρόνον γράφοντες ἀποφαίνουσιν, ἐν ἔτεσι δέκα συνετάξατο.Plutarch says that some mentioned 15 years:τὸν πανηγυρικὸν ἔτεσι δέκα συνέθηκεν, οἱ δὲ δεκαπέντε λέγουσινDec. Orat. p. 837 F: cp. Mor. 350 E, where he speaks of ‘almost three Olympiads.’ The writer of the treatise ‘On the Sublime’ (ch. 4) gives ten years as the period.elaboratum:7 §32. Cp. Cic. Brutus §312 deinceps inde multae (causae) quas nos diligenter elaboratas et tamquam elucubratas adferebamus.nullum erit, ‘will be of no avail’ = non dignum erit cuius ulla ratio habeatur.Cp. Cic. in Vatin. xii. §30 Dices supplicationes te illas non probasse. Optime. Nullae fuerint supplicationes.
De Emendatione.IV:1IV. Sequitur emendatio, pars studiorum longe utilissima; neque enim sine causa creditum est stilum non minus agere, cum delet. Huius autem operis est adicere, detrahere, mutare. Sed facilius in iis simpliciusque iudicium quae replenda vel deicienda sunt; premere vero tumentia, humilia extollere, luxuriantia adstringere, inordinata digerere, soluta componere, exultantia coercere duplicis operae; nam et damnanda sunt quae placuerant et invenienda quae fugerant.§ 1.creditum est:1 §48. The perfect indicates that the opinion was adopted and is still maintained. Hor. Ep. i. 2, 5 cur ita crediderim (= credam): cp. credidi2 §20above.non minus, sc. quam cum scribit. Hild sees a similar ellipse in1 §30potius habenti periculosus, sc. quam utilis. But see notead loc.replenda ... deiciendacorrespond toadicere ... detrahere. This use is suggested by the idea oflevelling. Cp. Digest xlii. 1, 4 lege repletur quod sententiae deest: Ovid, Her. x. 37 quod voci deerat plangore replebam.premere, ‘prune’: v. onpressus1 §§44,46: Hor. Sat. i. 10, 69 Detereret sibi multa, recideret omne quod ultra Perfectum traheretur.luxuriantia, ‘exuberance’: Hor. Ep. ii. 2, 122 luxuriantia compescet, where Wilkins cites this passage, also de Orat. ii. 96 luxuries quaedam quae stilo depascenda est, i.e. must be kept down by the practice of writing.inordinata: of expression, viii. 2, §23 nam si ... neque plura neque inordinata aut indistincta dixerimus, erunt dilucida et neglegenter quoque audientibus aperta: ix. 4, 27 felicissimus tamen sermo est cui et rectos ordo et apta iunctura et cum his numerus opportune cadens contigit.soluta componere= numeris adstringere verba: ‘reducing to metre what is unrhythmical.’ Cp. carmen solutum1 §31. Forcomponere, see on1 §44.exultantia: cp.2 §15, where the opposition ofcompositiandexultantesshows that the latter denotes the extreme,—the excess of that of whichsolutusis the defect. Cp. Cic. Orat. §195. The three terms might be arranged in a series: soluta, composita, exultantia,—the last denoting ‘combinations of words producing an undignified, skipping, or dancing movement’ (Frieze).IV:2Nec dubium est optimum esse emendandi genus, si scripta in aliquod tempus reponantur, ut ad ea post intervallum velut nova atque aliena redeamus, ne nobis scripta nostra tamquam recentes fetus blandiantur.§ 2.emendandi genus. Likevisandratio(see on1 §1),genusis used with the gerund to supply the place of a noun (hereemendatio): cp. ix. 3, 35 est et illud repetendi genus (‘this too is repetition’): Cic. pro Rab. Post. neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabatur: and even with the perf. part. pass. in Verr. ii. §141 non mihi praetermittendum videtur ne illud quidem genus pecuniae conciliatae: Nägelsbach, p. 130.in aliquod tempus. Hor. A. P. 388 nonumque prematur in annum: advice to which Quintilian alludes in his dedicatory letter to Tryphon, dabam iis otium ut refrigerato inventionis amore diligenter repetitos tamquam lector perpenderem.recentes fetus:1 §16nova illa velutnascentia:3 §7omnia nostra dum nascuntur placent.IV:3Sedneque hoc contingere semper potest praesertim oratori, cui saepius scribere ad praesentes usus necesse est, et ipsa emendatio finem habet. Sunt enim qui ad omnia scripta tamquam vitiosa redeant et, quasi nihil fas sit rectum esse quod primum est, melius existiment quidquid est aliud, idque faciant quotiens librum in manus resumpserunt, similes medicis etiam integra secantibus. Accidit itaque ut cicatricosa sint et exsanguia et cura peiora.§ 3.finem habet: there must be a limit. Cp. §4.sunt enim: theincreduliof3 §11: quibus nihil sit satis, &c.medicis. This is not flattering to the profession in Quintilian’s day: he may have owed the doctors a grudge. Dion. Hal. ad Cn. Pomp. vi. (p. 785 R.) has a similar figure.accidit itaque. Livy sometimes has itaque in the second place, Cicero never.cicatricosa, ‘covered with sutures’: ‘patchwork.’exsanguia: cp.1 §115, where he says of Calvus ‘nimia contra se calumnia verum sanguinem perdidisse.’cura peiora: cp. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxv. 10 nocere saepe nimiam diligentiam: Plin. Ep. ix. 35, 2 nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat.IV:4Sit ergo aliquando quod placeat aut certe quod sufficiat, ut opus poliat lima, non exterat. Temporis quoque esse debet modus. Nam quod Cinnae Smyrnam novem annis accepimus scriptam, et Panegyricum Isocratis, qui parcissime, decem annis dicunt elaboratum, ad oratorem nihil pertinet, cuius nullum erit, si tam tardum fuerit, auxilium.§ 4.lima: Hor. A. P. 291 limae labor et mora: Plin. Ep. v. 10, §3 perfectum opus absolutumque est, nec iam splendescit lima sed atteritur.nam: cp.1 §§9,50.quod: see on1 §60.Cinnae Smyrnam. C. Helvius Cinna, a friend of Catullus, was the author of a poem entitled Smyrna (Zmyrna), in which he described the incestuous love of Myrrha for her father Cinyras, the subject being treated in the fashion of the Alexandrian poets. (Cp. Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 210 §§2-3.) Vergil seems to have admired him (Ecl. ix. 35): but the elaborate care he spent over his poem, which was after all not a long one, resulted in obscurity: fuit autem liber obscurus adeo ut et nonnulli eius aetatis grammatici in eum scripserint magnamque ex eius enarratione sint gloriam consecuti. Quod obscurus fuerit etiam Martialis ostendit in illo versu (x. 21, 4): iudice te melior Cinna Marone fuit,—Philargyrius, quoted by Teuffel. Cp. Catullus xcv Zmyrna mei Cinnae nonam post denique messem Quam coeptast nonamque edita post hiememst. Horace’s nonum ... prematur in annum is believed to contain a direct reference to the Smyrna.Panegyricum Isocratis. This speech received its name from the fact that it was written for recitation at one of the greatπανηγύρειςor festal assemblies, such as the Panhellenic festival at Olympia. It was probably published in the latter part of the summer ofB.C.380, and consisted of an appeal to the Greeks to join in an expedition against Persia, under the joint command of Athens and Sparta.parcissime, sc. dicunt: cp.1 §101ut parcissime dicam. Quintilian seems here to be following Dion. Hal. de Comp. Verb. c. 25 (Reiske v. p. 208)ὁ μὲν γὰρ τὸν πανηγυρικὸν λόγον, ὡς οἱ τὸν ἐλάχιστον χρόνον γράφοντες ἀποφαίνουσιν, ἐν ἔτεσι δέκα συνετάξατο.Plutarch says that some mentioned 15 years:τὸν πανηγυρικὸν ἔτεσι δέκα συνέθηκεν, οἱ δὲ δεκαπέντε λέγουσινDec. Orat. p. 837 F: cp. Mor. 350 E, where he speaks of ‘almost three Olympiads.’ The writer of the treatise ‘On the Sublime’ (ch. 4) gives ten years as the period.elaboratum:7 §32. Cp. Cic. Brutus §312 deinceps inde multae (causae) quas nos diligenter elaboratas et tamquam elucubratas adferebamus.nullum erit, ‘will be of no avail’ = non dignum erit cuius ulla ratio habeatur.Cp. Cic. in Vatin. xii. §30 Dices supplicationes te illas non probasse. Optime. Nullae fuerint supplicationes.
IV:1IV. Sequitur emendatio, pars studiorum longe utilissima; neque enim sine causa creditum est stilum non minus agere, cum delet. Huius autem operis est adicere, detrahere, mutare. Sed facilius in iis simpliciusque iudicium quae replenda vel deicienda sunt; premere vero tumentia, humilia extollere, luxuriantia adstringere, inordinata digerere, soluta componere, exultantia coercere duplicis operae; nam et damnanda sunt quae placuerant et invenienda quae fugerant.
§ 1.creditum est:1 §48. The perfect indicates that the opinion was adopted and is still maintained. Hor. Ep. i. 2, 5 cur ita crediderim (= credam): cp. credidi2 §20above.non minus, sc. quam cum scribit. Hild sees a similar ellipse in1 §30potius habenti periculosus, sc. quam utilis. But see notead loc.replenda ... deiciendacorrespond toadicere ... detrahere. This use is suggested by the idea oflevelling. Cp. Digest xlii. 1, 4 lege repletur quod sententiae deest: Ovid, Her. x. 37 quod voci deerat plangore replebam.premere, ‘prune’: v. onpressus1 §§44,46: Hor. Sat. i. 10, 69 Detereret sibi multa, recideret omne quod ultra Perfectum traheretur.luxuriantia, ‘exuberance’: Hor. Ep. ii. 2, 122 luxuriantia compescet, where Wilkins cites this passage, also de Orat. ii. 96 luxuries quaedam quae stilo depascenda est, i.e. must be kept down by the practice of writing.inordinata: of expression, viii. 2, §23 nam si ... neque plura neque inordinata aut indistincta dixerimus, erunt dilucida et neglegenter quoque audientibus aperta: ix. 4, 27 felicissimus tamen sermo est cui et rectos ordo et apta iunctura et cum his numerus opportune cadens contigit.soluta componere= numeris adstringere verba: ‘reducing to metre what is unrhythmical.’ Cp. carmen solutum1 §31. Forcomponere, see on1 §44.exultantia: cp.2 §15, where the opposition ofcompositiandexultantesshows that the latter denotes the extreme,—the excess of that of whichsolutusis the defect. Cp. Cic. Orat. §195. The three terms might be arranged in a series: soluta, composita, exultantia,—the last denoting ‘combinations of words producing an undignified, skipping, or dancing movement’ (Frieze).
§ 1.creditum est:1 §48. The perfect indicates that the opinion was adopted and is still maintained. Hor. Ep. i. 2, 5 cur ita crediderim (= credam): cp. credidi2 §20above.
non minus, sc. quam cum scribit. Hild sees a similar ellipse in1 §30potius habenti periculosus, sc. quam utilis. But see notead loc.
replenda ... deiciendacorrespond toadicere ... detrahere. This use is suggested by the idea oflevelling. Cp. Digest xlii. 1, 4 lege repletur quod sententiae deest: Ovid, Her. x. 37 quod voci deerat plangore replebam.
premere, ‘prune’: v. onpressus1 §§44,46: Hor. Sat. i. 10, 69 Detereret sibi multa, recideret omne quod ultra Perfectum traheretur.
luxuriantia, ‘exuberance’: Hor. Ep. ii. 2, 122 luxuriantia compescet, where Wilkins cites this passage, also de Orat. ii. 96 luxuries quaedam quae stilo depascenda est, i.e. must be kept down by the practice of writing.
inordinata: of expression, viii. 2, §23 nam si ... neque plura neque inordinata aut indistincta dixerimus, erunt dilucida et neglegenter quoque audientibus aperta: ix. 4, 27 felicissimus tamen sermo est cui et rectos ordo et apta iunctura et cum his numerus opportune cadens contigit.
soluta componere= numeris adstringere verba: ‘reducing to metre what is unrhythmical.’ Cp. carmen solutum1 §31. Forcomponere, see on1 §44.
exultantia: cp.2 §15, where the opposition ofcompositiandexultantesshows that the latter denotes the extreme,—the excess of that of whichsolutusis the defect. Cp. Cic. Orat. §195. The three terms might be arranged in a series: soluta, composita, exultantia,—the last denoting ‘combinations of words producing an undignified, skipping, or dancing movement’ (Frieze).
IV:2Nec dubium est optimum esse emendandi genus, si scripta in aliquod tempus reponantur, ut ad ea post intervallum velut nova atque aliena redeamus, ne nobis scripta nostra tamquam recentes fetus blandiantur.
§ 2.emendandi genus. Likevisandratio(see on1 §1),genusis used with the gerund to supply the place of a noun (hereemendatio): cp. ix. 3, 35 est et illud repetendi genus (‘this too is repetition’): Cic. pro Rab. Post. neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabatur: and even with the perf. part. pass. in Verr. ii. §141 non mihi praetermittendum videtur ne illud quidem genus pecuniae conciliatae: Nägelsbach, p. 130.in aliquod tempus. Hor. A. P. 388 nonumque prematur in annum: advice to which Quintilian alludes in his dedicatory letter to Tryphon, dabam iis otium ut refrigerato inventionis amore diligenter repetitos tamquam lector perpenderem.recentes fetus:1 §16nova illa velutnascentia:3 §7omnia nostra dum nascuntur placent.
§ 2.emendandi genus. Likevisandratio(see on1 §1),genusis used with the gerund to supply the place of a noun (hereemendatio): cp. ix. 3, 35 est et illud repetendi genus (‘this too is repetition’): Cic. pro Rab. Post. neque solum hoc genus pecuniae capiendae turpe sed etiam nefarium esse arbitrabatur: and even with the perf. part. pass. in Verr. ii. §141 non mihi praetermittendum videtur ne illud quidem genus pecuniae conciliatae: Nägelsbach, p. 130.
in aliquod tempus. Hor. A. P. 388 nonumque prematur in annum: advice to which Quintilian alludes in his dedicatory letter to Tryphon, dabam iis otium ut refrigerato inventionis amore diligenter repetitos tamquam lector perpenderem.
recentes fetus:1 §16nova illa velutnascentia:3 §7omnia nostra dum nascuntur placent.
IV:3Sedneque hoc contingere semper potest praesertim oratori, cui saepius scribere ad praesentes usus necesse est, et ipsa emendatio finem habet. Sunt enim qui ad omnia scripta tamquam vitiosa redeant et, quasi nihil fas sit rectum esse quod primum est, melius existiment quidquid est aliud, idque faciant quotiens librum in manus resumpserunt, similes medicis etiam integra secantibus. Accidit itaque ut cicatricosa sint et exsanguia et cura peiora.
§ 3.finem habet: there must be a limit. Cp. §4.sunt enim: theincreduliof3 §11: quibus nihil sit satis, &c.medicis. This is not flattering to the profession in Quintilian’s day: he may have owed the doctors a grudge. Dion. Hal. ad Cn. Pomp. vi. (p. 785 R.) has a similar figure.accidit itaque. Livy sometimes has itaque in the second place, Cicero never.cicatricosa, ‘covered with sutures’: ‘patchwork.’exsanguia: cp.1 §115, where he says of Calvus ‘nimia contra se calumnia verum sanguinem perdidisse.’cura peiora: cp. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxv. 10 nocere saepe nimiam diligentiam: Plin. Ep. ix. 35, 2 nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat.
§ 3.finem habet: there must be a limit. Cp. §4.
sunt enim: theincreduliof3 §11: quibus nihil sit satis, &c.
medicis. This is not flattering to the profession in Quintilian’s day: he may have owed the doctors a grudge. Dion. Hal. ad Cn. Pomp. vi. (p. 785 R.) has a similar figure.
accidit itaque. Livy sometimes has itaque in the second place, Cicero never.
cicatricosa, ‘covered with sutures’: ‘patchwork.’
exsanguia: cp.1 §115, where he says of Calvus ‘nimia contra se calumnia verum sanguinem perdidisse.’
cura peiora: cp. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxv. 10 nocere saepe nimiam diligentiam: Plin. Ep. ix. 35, 2 nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat.
IV:4Sit ergo aliquando quod placeat aut certe quod sufficiat, ut opus poliat lima, non exterat. Temporis quoque esse debet modus. Nam quod Cinnae Smyrnam novem annis accepimus scriptam, et Panegyricum Isocratis, qui parcissime, decem annis dicunt elaboratum, ad oratorem nihil pertinet, cuius nullum erit, si tam tardum fuerit, auxilium.§ 4.lima: Hor. A. P. 291 limae labor et mora: Plin. Ep. v. 10, §3 perfectum opus absolutumque est, nec iam splendescit lima sed atteritur.nam: cp.1 §§9,50.quod: see on1 §60.Cinnae Smyrnam. C. Helvius Cinna, a friend of Catullus, was the author of a poem entitled Smyrna (Zmyrna), in which he described the incestuous love of Myrrha for her father Cinyras, the subject being treated in the fashion of the Alexandrian poets. (Cp. Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 210 §§2-3.) Vergil seems to have admired him (Ecl. ix. 35): but the elaborate care he spent over his poem, which was after all not a long one, resulted in obscurity: fuit autem liber obscurus adeo ut et nonnulli eius aetatis grammatici in eum scripserint magnamque ex eius enarratione sint gloriam consecuti. Quod obscurus fuerit etiam Martialis ostendit in illo versu (x. 21, 4): iudice te melior Cinna Marone fuit,—Philargyrius, quoted by Teuffel. Cp. Catullus xcv Zmyrna mei Cinnae nonam post denique messem Quam coeptast nonamque edita post hiememst. Horace’s nonum ... prematur in annum is believed to contain a direct reference to the Smyrna.Panegyricum Isocratis. This speech received its name from the fact that it was written for recitation at one of the greatπανηγύρειςor festal assemblies, such as the Panhellenic festival at Olympia. It was probably published in the latter part of the summer ofB.C.380, and consisted of an appeal to the Greeks to join in an expedition against Persia, under the joint command of Athens and Sparta.parcissime, sc. dicunt: cp.1 §101ut parcissime dicam. Quintilian seems here to be following Dion. Hal. de Comp. Verb. c. 25 (Reiske v. p. 208)ὁ μὲν γὰρ τὸν πανηγυρικὸν λόγον, ὡς οἱ τὸν ἐλάχιστον χρόνον γράφοντες ἀποφαίνουσιν, ἐν ἔτεσι δέκα συνετάξατο.Plutarch says that some mentioned 15 years:τὸν πανηγυρικὸν ἔτεσι δέκα συνέθηκεν, οἱ δὲ δεκαπέντε λέγουσινDec. Orat. p. 837 F: cp. Mor. 350 E, where he speaks of ‘almost three Olympiads.’ The writer of the treatise ‘On the Sublime’ (ch. 4) gives ten years as the period.elaboratum:7 §32. Cp. Cic. Brutus §312 deinceps inde multae (causae) quas nos diligenter elaboratas et tamquam elucubratas adferebamus.nullum erit, ‘will be of no avail’ = non dignum erit cuius ulla ratio habeatur.Cp. Cic. in Vatin. xii. §30 Dices supplicationes te illas non probasse. Optime. Nullae fuerint supplicationes.
IV:4Sit ergo aliquando quod placeat aut certe quod sufficiat, ut opus poliat lima, non exterat. Temporis quoque esse debet modus. Nam quod Cinnae Smyrnam novem annis accepimus scriptam, et Panegyricum Isocratis, qui parcissime, decem annis dicunt elaboratum, ad oratorem nihil pertinet, cuius nullum erit, si tam tardum fuerit, auxilium.
§ 4.lima: Hor. A. P. 291 limae labor et mora: Plin. Ep. v. 10, §3 perfectum opus absolutumque est, nec iam splendescit lima sed atteritur.nam: cp.1 §§9,50.quod: see on1 §60.Cinnae Smyrnam. C. Helvius Cinna, a friend of Catullus, was the author of a poem entitled Smyrna (Zmyrna), in which he described the incestuous love of Myrrha for her father Cinyras, the subject being treated in the fashion of the Alexandrian poets. (Cp. Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 210 §§2-3.) Vergil seems to have admired him (Ecl. ix. 35): but the elaborate care he spent over his poem, which was after all not a long one, resulted in obscurity: fuit autem liber obscurus adeo ut et nonnulli eius aetatis grammatici in eum scripserint magnamque ex eius enarratione sint gloriam consecuti. Quod obscurus fuerit etiam Martialis ostendit in illo versu (x. 21, 4): iudice te melior Cinna Marone fuit,—Philargyrius, quoted by Teuffel. Cp. Catullus xcv Zmyrna mei Cinnae nonam post denique messem Quam coeptast nonamque edita post hiememst. Horace’s nonum ... prematur in annum is believed to contain a direct reference to the Smyrna.Panegyricum Isocratis. This speech received its name from the fact that it was written for recitation at one of the greatπανηγύρειςor festal assemblies, such as the Panhellenic festival at Olympia. It was probably published in the latter part of the summer ofB.C.380, and consisted of an appeal to the Greeks to join in an expedition against Persia, under the joint command of Athens and Sparta.parcissime, sc. dicunt: cp.1 §101ut parcissime dicam. Quintilian seems here to be following Dion. Hal. de Comp. Verb. c. 25 (Reiske v. p. 208)ὁ μὲν γὰρ τὸν πανηγυρικὸν λόγον, ὡς οἱ τὸν ἐλάχιστον χρόνον γράφοντες ἀποφαίνουσιν, ἐν ἔτεσι δέκα συνετάξατο.Plutarch says that some mentioned 15 years:τὸν πανηγυρικὸν ἔτεσι δέκα συνέθηκεν, οἱ δὲ δεκαπέντε λέγουσινDec. Orat. p. 837 F: cp. Mor. 350 E, where he speaks of ‘almost three Olympiads.’ The writer of the treatise ‘On the Sublime’ (ch. 4) gives ten years as the period.elaboratum:7 §32. Cp. Cic. Brutus §312 deinceps inde multae (causae) quas nos diligenter elaboratas et tamquam elucubratas adferebamus.nullum erit, ‘will be of no avail’ = non dignum erit cuius ulla ratio habeatur.Cp. Cic. in Vatin. xii. §30 Dices supplicationes te illas non probasse. Optime. Nullae fuerint supplicationes.
§ 4.lima: Hor. A. P. 291 limae labor et mora: Plin. Ep. v. 10, §3 perfectum opus absolutumque est, nec iam splendescit lima sed atteritur.
nam: cp.1 §§9,50.quod: see on1 §60.
Cinnae Smyrnam. C. Helvius Cinna, a friend of Catullus, was the author of a poem entitled Smyrna (Zmyrna), in which he described the incestuous love of Myrrha for her father Cinyras, the subject being treated in the fashion of the Alexandrian poets. (Cp. Teuffel, Rom. Lit. 210 §§2-3.) Vergil seems to have admired him (Ecl. ix. 35): but the elaborate care he spent over his poem, which was after all not a long one, resulted in obscurity: fuit autem liber obscurus adeo ut et nonnulli eius aetatis grammatici in eum scripserint magnamque ex eius enarratione sint gloriam consecuti. Quod obscurus fuerit etiam Martialis ostendit in illo versu (x. 21, 4): iudice te melior Cinna Marone fuit,—Philargyrius, quoted by Teuffel. Cp. Catullus xcv Zmyrna mei Cinnae nonam post denique messem Quam coeptast nonamque edita post hiememst. Horace’s nonum ... prematur in annum is believed to contain a direct reference to the Smyrna.
Panegyricum Isocratis. This speech received its name from the fact that it was written for recitation at one of the greatπανηγύρειςor festal assemblies, such as the Panhellenic festival at Olympia. It was probably published in the latter part of the summer ofB.C.380, and consisted of an appeal to the Greeks to join in an expedition against Persia, under the joint command of Athens and Sparta.
parcissime, sc. dicunt: cp.1 §101ut parcissime dicam. Quintilian seems here to be following Dion. Hal. de Comp. Verb. c. 25 (Reiske v. p. 208)ὁ μὲν γὰρ τὸν πανηγυρικὸν λόγον, ὡς οἱ τὸν ἐλάχιστον χρόνον γράφοντες ἀποφαίνουσιν, ἐν ἔτεσι δέκα συνετάξατο.Plutarch says that some mentioned 15 years:τὸν πανηγυρικὸν ἔτεσι δέκα συνέθηκεν, οἱ δὲ δεκαπέντε λέγουσινDec. Orat. p. 837 F: cp. Mor. 350 E, where he speaks of ‘almost three Olympiads.’ The writer of the treatise ‘On the Sublime’ (ch. 4) gives ten years as the period.
elaboratum:7 §32. Cp. Cic. Brutus §312 deinceps inde multae (causae) quas nos diligenter elaboratas et tamquam elucubratas adferebamus.
nullum erit, ‘will be of no avail’ = non dignum erit cuius ulla ratio habeatur.Cp. Cic. in Vatin. xii. §30 Dices supplicationes te illas non probasse. Optime. Nullae fuerint supplicationes.