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  • These were called oratoria, basilicae, martyria, or tituli minores, and were in no respect parish churches, because in them baptism could not be administered; moreover, on certain solemn days, the faithful were obliged to assist at Mass in the parish church.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Quintilian Institutio oratoria 11.2.22, and Publicius, Art of Memory, 19, include the zodiac as a source for memory images. back

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • De pueris instituendis (On Education for Children), probably written about 1509, that emphasized the value of a classical education inspired by Plutarch's On the Education of Children and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • In an influential work on educational theory, De pueris instituendis (On Education for Children), probably written in 1509 but not published until 1529, Erasmus presented “a Christian humanist reformulation of the classical ideal of a liberal education” (Beert V. V.rstraete, in CWE 26: 393), strongly influenced by Plutarch's On the Education of Children and Quintilian's Institutio oratoria.

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • De partitione oratoria (“of the classification of rhetoric”) took a broader view of the art of rhetoric, discussing in detail once again the three functions of invention, arrangement, and style, the structural divi - sions of a speech, and the matter at issue.

    RHETORIC AFTER PLATO BERNARD WEINBERG 1968

  • Quintilian writes, Satura ... tota nostra est (“Rome is preeminent in satire,” Institutio oratoria, X, 93), he means, however, to claim Roman superiority only in that kind of satiric writing now known as formal verse satire — a collection of short verse satires in which the satirist directly attacks and denounces a variety of men and practices — written first by Lucilius, refined and stabilized by Horace, and further developed by Juvenal and Persius.

    SATIRE ALVIN B. KERNAN 1968

  • To the De inventione of Cicero and the Rhetorica ad Herennium which were already well-known, were now added Cicero's great treatises, the Institutio oratoria of Quintilian, and later many

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • In Quintilian's Institutio oratoria (ca. A.D. 90) the movement of the idea of rhetoric towards the idea of the rhetorician comes to fulfillment.

    RHETORIC AFTER PLATO BERNARD WEINBERG 1968

  • 'Efflagitasti cottidiano convicio, ut libros, quos ad Marcellum meum de Institutione oratoria scripseram, iam emittere inciperem.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • The thing is, however, much more ancient than the name, and Thomassin quotes numerous early references to oratoria, sacella, and eukteria.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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