Quintilian on the emotions (Institutio Oratoria 6 preface and 1-2)

Journal of Roman Studies

Volumn 94, Issue , 2004, Pages 122-140

  Leigh, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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References (125)

1. Liv. 45.40.6-42.1
2. Plut., Aem. 34.7-37.1
3. Val. Max. 5.10.2
4. Vell. 1.10.4-5
5. Quint., inst. 1 pref. 1
6. Quint., inst. 4 pref. 2
7. For this problem, see K. Barwick, 'Die Gliederung der rhetorischen TEXNH und die Horazische Epistula ad Pisones', Hermes 57 (1922), 1-62, esp. 1-13
8. F. Solmsen, 'Aristotle and Cicero on the orator's playing upon the feelings', CPh 33 (1938), 390-404 points to Cic., de orat. 2.152 and 160 and their implicit identification of Aristotle's Rhetoric as a source. He therefore argues that Aristotle's analysis of the emotions independent of any considerations of the different parts of the oration is reflected in their handling at de orat. 2.185-214 and 2.310-12
9. Quint., inst. 4.1.28, 6.1.51-2, 6.2.20
10. decl. 338.1-3
11. part. 52, 59-60, 122
12. Rhet. Her. 2.47
13. For conclusio, see Cic., inv. 1.98
14. de orat. 2.80
15. Rhet. Her. 1.4, 2.47
16. Q. Fabii Laurentii Victorini, Explanationes in Rhetoricam M. Tulli Ciceronis 1.52-5 = pp. 256-7 Halm
17. Cassiodorus, De Rhetorica 20 = p. 503 Halm
18. For concludere in the context of the peroration, see Cic., de orat. 2.80, 307, 332
19. orat. 122
20. part. 46, 47
21. For the anomalous use of cumulus, see also L. Calboli Montefusco, Exordium Narratio Epilogus. Studi sulla teoria retorica greca e romana delle parti del discorso (1988), 79 n. 1
22. For as a rhetorical term, see Arist., Rhet. 1419b10
23. D.H., Lys. 19
24. hoc. 9
25. Dem. 19, 45, 48, 52
26. For epilogus as a rhetorical term, see Cic., Brut. 127
27. de orat. 1.86 with Leeman-Pinkster ad loc., 2.278
28. orat. 57
29. Tusc. 1.47
30. See OLD pp. 470-1 s.v. cumulus 4, cf. B. Brohm in G. Ueding (ed.), Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik II (1994), 396-7 s.v. cumulatio. I am, however, baffled by Brohm's attempt specifically to link cumulatio with Greek
31. Arist., Rhet. 1419b19-13
32. Apsines I.2.296.14-16 Spengel-Hammer; Rhet. Her. 2.47
33. Cic., inv. 1.98
34. Chirius Fortunatianus p. 119.31-3 Halm; Martianus Capella p. 491.18-20 Halm
35. Longinus I.2.186.1-13 Spengel-Hammer
36. Anon. Rhet. I.2.208.10-12 Spengel-Hammer
37. Apsines I.2.296.14-16 Spengel-Hammer
38. Anon. Rhet. I.2.393.7-11, I.2.398.19 Spengel-Hammer
39. Rufus I.2.407.12-15 Spengel-Hammer
40. Quint., inst. 6.1.52: 'cum sit maxima pars epilogi amplificatio'; cf. Cic., de orat. 1.143, 3.104
41. orat. 127
42. part. 52, 128
43. See especially Cic., orat. 125
44. cf. de orat. 1.143, 2.332, 3.104
45. part. 52
46. Cic., de orat. 3.104
47. Cic., de orat. 3.104
48. cf. top. 98
49. C. A. Atherton, 'Hand over fist: the failure of Stoic rhetoric', CQ 38 (1988), 392-427, at 404-5 translates 'Atticorum' and 'Atticos' as 'Atticisers' on the not unreasonable grounds that the disavowal of emotional appeal is far more generally true of the Roman Atticists (at least as presented by Cicero at e.g. Brut. 276, 290-1, orat. 20, opt. gen. 15-16) than it is of the orators of ancient Athens. However, Quintilian's explanatory reference to Athenian legislation and the intervention of the herald coheres much better with an admittedly inaccurate account of the Athenian orators than it does with the apparent aesthetic criteria of the Atticists. For this reason I translate 'Athenians'
50. Quint., inst. 2.16.4, 10.1.107, 12.10.26
51. Xen., Mem. 4.4.4. For the prevalence of emotional appeal to the jury and the brandishing of children, see Ar., Vesp. 568-74, cf. 976-8
52. Pl., Apol. 34B-35B
53. cf. Isoc., Antid. 321; Lys. 20.34; And. 1-148; Dem. 21.99, 186-8
54. Arist., Rhet. 1354a22-3
55. Lycurg., In Leocrat. 11-13. The phrase features in both 11 and 13
56. For very similar treatment of the evidence, see D. M. MacDowell, Athenian Homicide Law in the Age of the Orators (1963), 43-4
57. Arist., Rhet. 1354a11-18, cf. 1354a24-6
58. Lycurg., In Leocrat. 11
59. See also Quint., inst. 10.1.107
60. For the case against contradiction, see F. Marx, 'Aristoteles' Rhetorik', in R. Stark (ed.), Rhetorika. Schriften zur aristotelischen und hellenistischen Rhetorik (1968), 36-123, esp. 52-3
61. E. Schütrumpf, 'Some observations on the introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric', in D. J. Furley and A. Nehamas (eds), Aristotle's Rhetoric. Philosophical Essays (1994), 99-116, esp. 113-15
62. The objections of C. Rapp, Aristoteles Rhetorik. Übersetzt und Erläutert (2002), ii, 46 are not convincing
63. Anon. Rhet. I.2.392.14-393.6 Spengel-Hammer
64. Kayser
65. Anon. Rhet. I.2.389.6-18 Spengel-Hammer
66. Pl., Phdr. 267D. For Thrasymachus and pathos, see Pl., Phdr. 267 C-D
67. G. Moretti, Acutum dicendi genus. Brevità, oscurità, sottigliezze e paradossi nelle tradizioni retoriche degli stoici (2nd edn, 1995), 42-3 and n. 19
68. For this distinction between Zeno and Chrysippus, see SVF III.461 = Galen, de H. et Plat. decr. IV.1 = p. 334 M and V.1 = p. 405 M
69. Quint., inst. 6.2.4-6
70. Anon. proleg. in Hermog. status, Rh. Gr. vol. VII. I, p. 8.20 Walz
71. Cic., de orat. 1.227-8
72. For Galba as the first Roman to study emotional effect, see Cic., Brut. 82
73. For the Stoicism of Rufus and his relationship with Panaetius, see Cic., Brut. 114, 116
74. Moretti, op. cit. (n. 51), 92-6
75. Lévy, 'Cicéron critique de l'éloquence stoïcienne', in L. Calboli Montefusco (ed.), Papers on Rhetoric III (2000), 127-44, esp. 131-4
76. Cic., de orat. 1.229
77. cf. de orat. 1.227-30
78. For Rufus' disavowal of pathetic pleas, see Val. Max. 6.4.4, cf. D.C. 28 fr. 97.2
79. Cic., de orat. 1.45, 75
80. Cic., de orat. 1.83
81. See also Crassus at Cic., de orat. 3.65
82. Cic., de orat. 1.220
83. Cic., de orat. 1.221
84. Cic., de orat. 2.177-8, esp. 178: 'ut aliquando ad illa maiora veniamus.'
85. Cic., de orat. 2.178
86. Cic., de orat. 3.65
87. For the need to study philosophy in order to appreciate the emotions and their arousal, see Pl., Phdr. 269E-272C
88. See also Leeman-Pinkster i.62
89. Cic., part. 9
90. See G. Calboli, Marci Porci Catonis Oratio Pro Rhodiensibus. Introduzione, edizione critica dei frammenti, traduzione e commento (1978), 14-22, for a survey of opinions
91. For good men in the society evoked in Cic., de orat., see 2.25, 144, 208, 260
92. See also Leeman-Pinkster at Cic., de orat. 2.85: 'Quint. verbindet die Definition mit der stoischen Auffassung der Redekunst'
93. See above n. 92
94. Cic., de orat. 2.8
95. Brut. 163
96. Cic., de orat. 1.94, 1.206, 3.189
97. Cic., de orat. 2.8
98. dominetur A, Winterbottom; dominatur Campanus, Russell
99. Quint., inst. 6.2.4-6
100. Quint., inst. 6 pref. 11
101. dial. 6, 11, 12
102. Quint., inst. 10.1.47, 11.3.153
103. Mar. Victorin. rhet. p. 174.30 Halm
104. G. A. Kennedy, Quintilian (1969), 29-30
105. G. O. Hutchinson, Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal (1992), 271-3
106. Zinsmaier, op. cit. (n. 103), 153 n. 1 with refs
107. M. Winterbottom, 'Quintilian and rhetoric', in T. A. Dorey (ed.), Empire and Aftermath. Silver Latin II (1975), 75-97, esp. 90-1
108. F. Ahlheid, Quintilian. The Preface to Book VIII and Comparable Passages in the Institutio Oratoria (1983), 55
109. Zinsmaier, op. cit. (n. 103), 154 and nn. 3-4
110. orat. 130
111. part. 56-7, 122
112. Quint., inst. 6.1.24, 6.1.30, 6.1.33, cf. 6.1.46-7
113. cf. Cic., part. 60: 'reo rarius utendum.'
114. Quint., inst. 6.1.3
115. Anon. Rhet. I.2.390.15-23 Spengel-Hammer
116. Quint., inst. 6.1.1
117. For this dictum cf. Rhet. Her. 2.50 with Calboli ad loc
118. Cic., inv. 1.109
119. part. 57
120. Quint., decl. 338.3
121. orat. 132
122. Hor., AP 101-3 with Brink ad loc
123. R. Webb, 'Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric', in S. Morton-Braund and C. Gill (eds), The Passions in Roman Literature and Thought (1997), 112-27
124. Cic., de orat. 2.55-61
125. Cic., de orat. 1.5