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This book is a revised and enlarged version of On the Early Education of the Citizen-Orator, published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., in 1965. First Southern Illinois University Press edition published 1987. Second edition 2016.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quintilian, author.
[Institutiones oratoriae. Selections. English]
Quintilian on the teaching of speaking and writing : translations from books one, two, and ten of the “Institutio Oratoria” / edited by James J. Murphy and Cleve Wiese. — Second edition.
pages cm — (Landmarks in rhetoric and public address)
Summary: “Translation, with introductory material and other critical apparatus, of ‘Institutio oratoria’ (The Education of the Orator), by Roman rhetor Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilanus, ca. A.D. 35–98?).” — Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8093-3440-7 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-8093-3441-4 (e-book)
1. Oratory—Early works to 1800. 2. Rhetoric—Early works to 1800.
I. Murphy, James Jerome, editor. II. Wiese, Cleve, editor. III. Title.
PA6650.E5M87 2015
808.5'1—dc23
2015023462
Printed on recycled paper.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.