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Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400

Note 31 — Chapter III · THE LAST ROMAN SCHOOLS AND THE COMPENDS (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)

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474-521; works in MGH and in CSE. The subjects of the controversiæ are from the usual stock; e.g.: In abdicatum qui patrem necavit. In novercam quæ, cum marito privigni odia suadere non posset, utrique venenum porrexit. In eum qui patri suo cibum subtraxit. His panegyric of Theodoric was delivered about 507.

A collection of declamationes was current under the name of Quintilian.

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