Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

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

Further, following the precept of Horace who in his Art of Poetry deprecates hasty publication and urges the would-be author

  1. To withhold
  2. His work till nine long years have passed away,
I proposed to give them time, in order that the ardour of creation might cool and that I might revise them with all the consideration of a dispassionate reader.