Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.

I went back from the ultimate species (which generally contains the vital point of the case) to the first general question or descended from the genus to the ultimate species, [*](cp. v. x. 5, 6. The statement man is an animal is insufficient as a definition, animal being the genus. Man is mortal introduces a species, but one common to other animals. Man is rational introduces the ultima species. ) applying this method even to deliberative themes.