Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2019
This chapter complements and complicates the findings of Chapter 3 with a focus on the dialectic inherent in imitatio. I establish some first principles with Epistles 9.19 (replying to Tacitus’ Agricola) and Epistles 3.7 (a dense nexus involving Herodotus, Sallust and Silius Italicus among others), then consider four Quintilianic liaisons: Epistles 6.2 (on excess in court speeches), 3.3 (on home schooling), 7.17 (on the psychological effect of having an audience) and 2.19 (on performance in oratory).
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