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Notes on Quintilian And [Quintilian]1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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The answer to the basic question, quisquamne cantat?, given the rhetoric of the context (perhaps a professorial chestnut of Quintilian's: elements from 11.3.60 turn up at Pliny, Ep. 2.14.3), especially emotive in 57, should be that everyone cantat, but the form of the question seems to suggest, at first sight, the opposite.
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2 See 10.1.48; 10.7.2; 1.10.35 for Quintilianic exx. Cf. also Pliny, , Ep. 2. 4. 2Google Scholar; 7. 17. 9; 8. 6. 2; , Sen.NQ 1 pr. 1Google Scholar (non tanturn dico…sed…); contrast Pliny, , Ep. 7. 9. 9Google Scholar; 9. 14. 1 where the non dico excludes, but where this is also made explicit in the context.
3 Emphasis and rhythm justify this position for the insertion.
4 The anonymous referee suggests that one might also consider nullos (sc. quam tyrannos).
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