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