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- The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
- The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Frontispiece
- Contents
- Ad lectorem
- Quintilian in Brief, in Brief
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Two Scenes from the Life of an Artist
- Chapter 2 Setting the Stage
- Chapter 3 Brief Encounters
- Chapter 4 Dancing with Dialectic
- Chapter 5 Through the Looking-Glass
- Chapter 6 On Length, in Brief (Ep. 1.20)
- Chapter 7 Letters to Lupercus
- Chapter 8 Studiorum secessus (Ep. 7.9)
- Chapter 9 Docendo discitur
- Chapter 10 Reflections of an Author
- Chapter 11 Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus
- Chapter 12 Beginnings
- References
- Index locorum
- Index of Greek and Latin Words
- General Index
Chapter 12 - Beginnings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2019
- The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
- The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Frontispiece
- Contents
- Ad lectorem
- Quintilian in Brief, in Brief
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Two Scenes from the Life of an Artist
- Chapter 2 Setting the Stage
- Chapter 3 Brief Encounters
- Chapter 4 Dancing with Dialectic
- Chapter 5 Through the Looking-Glass
- Chapter 6 On Length, in Brief (Ep. 1.20)
- Chapter 7 Letters to Lupercus
- Chapter 8 Studiorum secessus (Ep. 7.9)
- Chapter 9 Docendo discitur
- Chapter 10 Reflections of an Author
- Chapter 11 Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus
- Chapter 12 Beginnings
- References
- Index locorum
- Index of Greek and Latin Words
- General Index
Summary
This short chapter first reviews the argument of the book, then goes back to beginnings. The Institutio opens with strong generic positioning, situating Quintilian’s project against Cicero’s Orator and Sallust’s Jugurtha. Pliny’s cover note (Epistles 1.1) operates more discreetly, but reveals itself, through precise reworking of Quintilian’s cover note to Trypho, as an infrared invitation to read this collection of letters as ‘Quintilian in Brief’. Further traces of Quintilian’s first and last prefaces (Institutio 1.pr. and 12.pr.) in Epistles 1.2 and 9.1-2 offer final, open-ended confirmation that the Insitutio is hard-wired into the Epistles from start to end: Latin prose imitation, in Pliny’s hands, is a very fine art.
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- The Arts of Imitation in Latin ProsePliny's <I>Epistles</I>/Quintilian in Brief, pp. 473 - 494Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019