- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- The Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- The <i>Bellum Africum</i>
- Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar’s Style and its Earliest Critics
- Cicero’s Adaptation of Legal Latin in the <i>De legibus</i>
- The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
- The Impracticability of Latin ‘Kunstprosa’
- Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- The Language of Pliny the Elder
- Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Language of Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses</i>
- ‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Gregory of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- The Varieties of Bede’s Prose
- Translator’s Latin
- Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: Gerhard of Augsburg’s <i>Vita S. Uodalrici</i>
- William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
Omisso speciosiore stili genere
Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- Chapter:
- (p.257) Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- Source:
- Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
- Author(s):
D. A. Russell
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter first examines in detail the three passages in which Quintilian’s comments on the way he is presenting his material, and comparing what follows the announcement of a change with what precedes it. But before coming to the passages themselves, it makes a few preliminary observations. Quintilian announces that he is now going on to the traditional core of rhetoric. The chapter then turns to omisso speciosiore stili genere, the programmatic announcement made at 7.1.54. But it must put it in its context, which has several interesting features. Quintilian often changes register without giving prior warning. Periodic writing does of course make recognizable patterns more frequent and obvious, but even in his simplest writing Quintilian appears to be rhythmical by instinct.
Keywords: Omisso speciosiore, Quintilian, periodic writing, passages, rhetoric
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- The Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- The <i>Bellum Africum</i>
- Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar’s Style and its Earliest Critics
- Cicero’s Adaptation of Legal Latin in the <i>De legibus</i>
- The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
- The Impracticability of Latin ‘Kunstprosa’
- Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- The Language of Pliny the Elder
- Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Language of Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses</i>
- ‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Gregory of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- The Varieties of Bede’s Prose
- Translator’s Latin
- Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: Gerhard of Augsburg’s <i>Vita S. Uodalrici</i>
- William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
