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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

Note 1153 — Chapter II · QUINTILIAN: DECLAMATIONS AND ORATORS

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Cf. I. Or., I. ii. 4 sqq. with Sat., XIV. 31 sqq. In X. 122 Juvenal cites as his example of Cicero’s bad verse one of the well-known lines quoted in I. Or., XI. i. 24. When, however, Juvenal was caned at school (I. 15), his master was presumably not Quintilian, who did not believe in corporal punishment (I. Or., I. iii. 13).

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