Note 49 — Chapter IV · THE TEACHING OF RHETORIC
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Seneca, Controversiæ, IV. iii. 3. Doubtless Quintilian had such perversion of narratio in mind when he wrote: “[The narratio] should be neither dry and starved ... nor again winding and seductive with far-fetched descriptions, into which many are led by imitation of the license of poetry.” II. iv. 3.