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Chapter 12 - Beginnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Christopher Whitton
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University of Cambridge
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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 Prose
Pliny's <I>Epistles</I>/Quintilian in Brief
, pp. 473 - 494
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Beginnings
  • Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
  • Online publication: 10 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688550.012
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  • Beginnings
  • Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
  • Online publication: 10 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688550.012
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  • Beginnings
  • Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
  • Online publication: 10 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688550.012
Available formats
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