CHAPTER I.

BEFORE QUINTILIAN—CICERO, HORACE, SENECA THE ELDER, VARRO.

The conditions of Latin criticism 211 Cicero 213 His attitude to Lucretius 214 His Rhetorical works 217 His Critical Vocabulary 219 Horace 221 The _Ad Pisones_ 221 Its desultoriness 224 And arbitrary conventionality 225 Its compensations: Brilliancy 225 Typical spirit 226

And practical value 227 The _Satires_ and _Epistles_ 228 “Declamations” 230 Their subjects: epideictic 231 And forensic 231 Their influence on style 232 Seneca the Elder 234 The Suasories 234 The _Controversies_: their Introductions 236 Varro 240