Note 48 — Chapter III · THE LAST ROMAN SCHOOLS AND THE COMPENDS (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)
Reading edition
The assignment to Cicero is as early as Jerome. See Cornificius in Pauly-Wissowa.
Halm shows very little use of the Rhetorica ad Herennium during this period. There is a full synopsis of this work in Wilkins’s introduction to his edition of Cicero’s De oratore (Oxford, 1893), page 56. Faral shows in comparative tables that it is the source of the lists of figures in the medieval artes poeticæ (Les arts poétiques du xiie et du xiiie siècle, Paris, 1924), pages 52-54.