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Academics 380
actors 367
See also delivery
accomplishment(s) 111, 222n24, 272n34, 302n59, 381n42, 409–410
Cicero and 108, 118, 120n190, 297
Quintilian and 354, 359
rhetorical skills and 118, 120n190, 297, 354, 359
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 381
See also education
adaptation (rhetorical)
to occasion 26, 57, 100, 117, 120, 126, 136, 139, 144, 146, 155, 192, 204, 211, 211n, 212, 214, 215, 215n15, 221, 229, 237, 242, 243, 266, 324, 341, 342, 345, 372, 373, 375, 379, 397, 398, 414, 416, 450, 463, 514, 578
to time, kairos 100, 120, 135, 146, 157, 203, 206, 209, 215n14, 237, 240, 241, 245, 246, 255, 269, 273n40, 286, 287, 326, 333, 340, 341, 344, 362, 384, 416, 417, 419, 430, 448, 460, 463, 505, 511, 528, 531, 553, 570, 578
to audience, hearer, person 15, 27, 50, 70, 71, 85, 88, 100, 117, 121, 125, 126, 130, 135, 136, 137, 140, 143, 155, 163, 183, 202n, 217, 218, 221, 224, 254, 254n42, 261, 262, 266, 267, 269, 271, 283, 286, 296, 318, 336, 399, 410, 412, 416, 417, 420, 491, 502, 506, 514, 525, 541, 561
Addison, Joseph (essayist and poet) 348n25, 369n9, 373n21, 409, 410, 413, 428, 429, 433, 444, 448, 455, 471, 473, 480, 488, 492, 499, 502, 503, 506, 513, 518, 520, 522, 531, 535, 537, 538, 539, 544, 546, 547, 552, 557, 559, 561, 573, 564, 567, 568, 569, 573, 575, 579
Spectator, The (periodical) 413, 416, 436, 470, 539
Freeholder, The (periodical) 279n21, 420
address 145, 197–199, 213, 254–295, 332, 340, 380, 410, 412, 419, 449, 572, 578
See also delivery
Ad M. Brutum Orator (work)
See Cicero (Orator)
Aeschines (Attic orator) 65–67
in Cicero (works) 540, 568
Demosthenes and 62–63, 66, 69–70, 73–74
letters written by 74
Aeschines of Miletus (orator in Asiatic style)
in Cicero (works) 536
Aesop 14, 499, 560
affectation, affected 412–415, 417, 440, 461, 475, 551
Aristotle and 81
in Cicero (works) 137, 289, 291, 322, 414–415, 419, 427, 436, 444, 504, 525, 529
criticism of 10, 396n38, 412–415, 418, 419, 427, 436, 437, 473–474, 529, 538
Longinus and 181, 397, 398, 414, 423, 437, 507
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 460
in Seneca (works) 153, 154, 155, 344, 347
Tacitus and 168
See also delivery
See also style
See also character(s)
affection(s) 72, 87, 412–415, 421, 444, 456–457, 465, 470, 473, 505, 515, 517, 519, 562, 573, 575
Aristotle and 82, 244, 247–248, 252, 258, 261, 505–506, 509, 529
Cicero and 111, 284, 313, 325, 329, 333, 453, 506, 517, 523, 526, 560, 567
Isocrates and 232–233
Longinus and 390, 424
Quintilian and 360–363, 366
Seneca and 344
Tacitus and 375, 379
See also passion(s)
Africanus, Julius (orator) 281, 335
Africanus, Julius (the orator’s father) 287
air 181, 212, 321, 376, 374, 377, 412, 415, 417–419, 429, 433, 444, 460, 476, 487, 491, 492, 500, 506, 507, 539, 542, 544, 576
See also delivery
See also deportment
See also style
Alcidamas (sophist and rhetorician) 338
Aldrich, Charles (trans.) 94
Alexander the Great 79, 89, 462, 578
Allestree, Richard (cleric and scholar) 60, 97
Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety 252n31, 567
Government of the Tongue 511
Ammonius Saccas (philosopher) 386
Amphicrates of Athens (sophist and rhetorician) 397
Antonius, Marcus (orator)
in Cicero (works) 285, 294, 419, 472, 552
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 357
Aper, Marcus (orator)
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 173–174, 176, 369–384
Apollo 337, 376, 563
Apollodorus of Pergamon (rhetorician) 358
Apollodorus of Phaleron (student) 190, 196
Arbuckle, James (scholar) 34–36
Arbuthnot, Dr. John (physician and satirist) 289n, 294n49, 303n62, 310n, 336n, 344n14, 352n3, 374n, 399n47, 534
Archilochus (poet) 335, 403
argument
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 245, 247–254, 427
artificial and inartificial 426–427, 473
in Cicero (works) 139, 146, 293, 302, 325, 331, 333, 336, 438, 482, 515, 532, 538
of Cicero 142, 144
of Demosthenes 68
false or solid 49, 93, 302, 333, 511, 524, 536, 538, 554–555, 560
in Isocrates (works) 229, 229n34
of Isocrates 57
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 427
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 360–361
in Rhetoric to Alexander 256, 260
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 173–174, 378–379
Aristotle 76–93, 244–263
Alexander the Great and 79–80, 89
Aristotle’s Masterpiece (attributed to) 83
canonical status, influence 5, 6, 11–12, 20, 27, 43, 45, 50, 53, 76–93, 97, 107, 119, 159, 171, 380n39, 387n9, 461, 516, 520, 539
Cicero and 76, 79, 84–85, 107, 111, 159, 336, 454–455, 471, 516
Demosthenes and 84–85
life and ethos 79–83, 97, 107, 171, 180, 395, 539
Isocrates and 88
Longinus and 87, 159, 180, 395n32
Logic (work) 77n77
Ethics (work) 77, 77n77, 81–82, 91–93, 97
Rhetoric (work) 11, 25, 77–79, 83–88, 99, 111, 156, 244–263, 357–358, 358n12, 410, 411, 412, 414, 416, 421, 422, 424, 427, 429, 431–432, 435, 437, 440, 441, 447, 450, 454, 455, 457, 458, 459, 463, 465, 468, 469, 490, 491, 500, 505, 508–510, 512, 524–526, 528–529, 533, 536, 542, 548, 549, 553–555, 560, 566, 568, 571, 573, 576
Rhetoric to Alexander (attributed to) 89–91, 256–263
Philip of Macedon and 79–80, 89
Plato and 43, 45, 50, 79–81
Poetics (work) 77, 93
Politics (work) 77, 82, 91–93
Quintilian and 159, 355, 357–358, 466
Seneca and 43
Tacitus and 380n39
Theophrastus and 87, 97–98, 99, 100, 264n3
Arnauld, Antoine (philosopher)
Art of Thinking 87–88
arrangement
rhetorical canon ix, 136, 139, 142, 146, 184, 260n70, 456, 473
in translated works 67, 96, 105, 154, 171, 352
art, arts 423–426
Aesthetic 118, 481
Aristotle and 247, 250–251, 424
Cicero and 121, 281, 334, 409, 425, 433–434, 446, 474, 481, 491, 507, 516, 545
conversation 118
Isocrates and 229, 229n34
Longinus and 393–395, 466
Plato and 199
Quintilian and 353–354, 356, 359, 426
skill 238, 381
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 369–370, 372, 374, 377–379, 382
See also liberal arts
Ascham, Roger (scholar, educator) 444, 532
Atterbury, Francis (cleric, writer) 431, 472, 530, 537, 556
audience(s)
of Cicero 111, 125, 126, 499
Cicero and 293, 296, 331, 411, 433, 457, 512
Demosthenes and 71, 74
Longinus and 399, 427, 481
Plato and 50
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 373, 379, 479
translations addressed to 15, 113, 135
See also adaptation (to audience)
Aurelian, Lucius Domitius (emperor) 183, 389–392
Austin, William (trans.) 132, 141
Ayliffe, John (scholar of law) 432, 522
B.E.
See E., B.
Bacon, Francis (philosopher) 411, 438, 441, 442, 456, 458, 459, 476, 482, 485, 487, 489, 491, 493, 495, 513, 551, 559, 570, 577
Aristotle and 88
Baker, Thomas (antiquarian) 476, 499, 518, 539
Barnes, George (trans.) 115, 119–120
Barnes, Thomas (trans.) 53
Beattie, James (poet, moralist) 579
beauty 26–27, 403
aesthetic 45, 150, 317–318, 320, 347, 357, 389, 403
of Cicero 101
in Cicero (works) 292–293, 317–318, 320–322, 549
criticism of 20, 25, 34, 74
of Demosthenes 74
in Isocrates (works) 211, 232
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 387, 394, 399, 403, 452
moral 340
Plato and 44–45, 47–48
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 357, 460
taste for 26–27, 394, 561
rhetorical 36–37, 47, 74, 98, 101, 150, 292–293, 321, 422, 549
Seneca and 150, 340
of Theophrastus 98
See also criticism
See also taste
See also women
belles lettres, belletristic rhetoric 4, 5, 6
See also literature, literary
Benson, Thomas W. (editor) 11
Bennet, George (trans.) 149, 155
Bentley, Richard (classical scholar) 538
Berger, Dieter A. (scholar) 27
Berenice, Queen of Cilicia 159
Bevilacqua, Vincent M. (scholar) 27
Bible (as quoted by S. Johnson)
Canticles 537
Ecclesiastes 568
Isaiah 347n22, 454
Jeremiah 457
Judges 570
Matthew 551
1 Peter 441
Proverbs 420, 537
Psalms 443, 541
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 443
bibliographies 18–20
biography, biographies
as a rhetorical genre 12–13
on Aristotle 79–80, 91
on Cicero 31, 72, 101, 106–113, 169, 170, 385
on Demosthenes 68–70, 71, 72
on Isocrates 55–58
on Longinus 180–184
on Plato 45–50
on Quintilian 158–160
on Seneca 147, 150–151, 350
on Tacitus 167–170
on Theophrastus 97–98
on Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra 183–184
See also character(s)
See also ethos
Bizzell, Patricia (editor) 10, 14
Blackmore, Richard (physician and poet) 303n63
Blackwall, Anthony (editor) 159
Blair, Hugh (rhetorician) 4, 6
Blount, Thomas (lexicographer) 4, 86–87, 97, 251n24, 261n74, 281n29, 281n31, 292n, 293n45, 386n6
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (trans.) 178, 179, 183, 393, 564
Bolgar, Robert Ralph (scholar) 16, 21–22, 35–36, 114n174
bombast 396–397, 449, 453, 470, 520
See also style
Boyle, Robert (chemist and physicist) 479, 528
breeding, good 26, 290, 318, 335, 417, 428, 436, 519, 535, 568, 578
See also education
See also morals, morality
See also politeness
Brotier, Gabriel (editor)
on Tacitus 164–165, 167, 174–176
Broome, William (cleric and trans.) 547, 548
Brown, James (trans.) 53, 56–57, 140, 229n34
Brown, Thomas (satirist and trans.) 128
Browne, Sir Thomas (polymath and author)
Vulgar Errors (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) 293n44, 444, 451, 560
Brüggemann, Ludwig Wilhelm (scholar) 18, 54, 103, 114, 120, 131, 138
Bruto, Gian Michele (editor) 122
Brutus, Marcus Junius (senator) 30, 127, 129, 181, 285, 294, 295, 297, 311, 326, 334, 535, 565
See also Cicero (Brutus)
See also Cicero (Orator)
Budgell, Eustace (trans.) 95–98, 264n2–3, 265n7, 266n8, 266n10, 267n13, 268n15, 268n17–18, 269–273
Bullokar, John (lexicographer) 249n18, 280n26, 324n76
Burgh, James (rhetorician) 4
Burke, Kenneth (scholar) 38
Burnet, Thomas (theologian and writer) 480, 530, 572
Butler, Samuel (poet and satirist) 341n5
C., H. (trans.) 77, 79, 79n82, 86, 87, 88, 247–256, 256–263
C., K. (trans.) 64
Caelius [Coelius]
See Rufus, Marcus Caelius
See Cicero (For Caelius)
Callisthenes of Olynthus (historian) 98, 396, 397n41, 569
Campbell, George (rhetorician) 4, 6
canon(s)
of rhetorical arts ix, 466
of works, texts ix–x, 3, 5, 6, 7–17, 21, 23, 26, 34, 44, 62, 114, 171
See also invention
See also arrangement
See also style
See also memory
See also delivery
Carbo, Gaius Papirius (orator) 335, 419
Carew, Richard (antiquarian and poet) 434, 541
carriage 28, 301, 328, 410, 427, 441, 447, 454
See also delivery
See also deportment
Casaubon, Isaac (trans.) 43, 94
Cassandre, François (trans.) 79n83, 89
Cato, Marcus Porcius (Cato the Elder) (orator, historian) 143–145, 281, 291, 330, 335, 357
Cato Major (work)
See Cicero (Cato)
Cato, Marcus Porcius (Cato the Younger) (orator, Stoic) 180, 350, 369
Cawdrey, Robert (lexicographer) 250n23, 277n15, 347n23
Cecilius 393n26
See also Longinus
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius (scholar) 359
character(s) 433–434, 495, 542
in Cicero (works) 133, 160, 283, 285–288, 291, 293, 294–296, 301, 302, 309, 314, 318, 333, 409, 430, 433–434, 448, 492, 494, 497, 498, 505, 513, 514, 517, 519, 526
criticism of 29, 51, 82, 110, 133, 183, 184, 261n76, 274–278, 309, 314, 368, 374, 429–430, 498, 505, 517, 546
formation of 30–31, 85, 92, 109, 111, 160, 184, 333, 376–381, 426, 430, 492, 494, 497, 513, 519, 526, 531
in Isocrates (works) 223
in Plato (works) 43, 194n10, 204n30
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 353, 362–363, 367
in Seneca (works) 350–351
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 162, 167, 368, 374, 376–381
in Theophrastus (Characters) 14, 24, 94, 97, 98, 99–100, 264–273
See also biography, biographies
See also ethics, ethos
See also morals, morality
Charles I of England 577
Cheyne, George (physician and philosopher) 423
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 101–146, 274–339
canonical status, influence 3, 5, 6, 9, 11–13, 20–21, 24, 27–28, 55, 61, 76, 101–103, 107, 155, 159–160, 171, 181–182, 345, 348, 357n, 365n
Aristotle and 76, 79, 84–85, 107, 111, 159, 336, 454–455, 471, 516
Brutus (De Claris Oratoribus) 13, 103, 105, 106, 114, 115, 120, 164, 377, 378n31–33, 412, 415, 417, 419, 425, 427, 435, 445–446, 449, 451, 454
Cato (On Old Age; Cato Major) 3, 5, 13, 28, 103, 105, 106, 121, 122, 123, 131, 132–133, 140–142, 143–145, 146, 443
Demosthenes and 55, 58, 61–62, 68, 69, 72, 84, 107–108, 110–111, 121, 125, 182, 184, 295, 388n10, 529, 550
Isocrates and 54, 107, 116, 140, 288, 296, 297–298, 336
life and ethos 30–31, 55, 61, 72, 106–113, 138, 274–278, 309–316, 377, 378n31–32, 381, 381n49, 383, 388
Longinus and 181–182, 184, 388, 399n48
Offices (De Officiis) 24, 28, 31, 46–47, 97, 103, 105–106, 131–137, 142, 317–328, 460, 495, 502, 550, 563
Laelius (On Friendship; De Amicitia) 3, 5, 13, 24, 28, 103, 105–106, 121–123, 131–133, 140–143, 145–146, 328–334, 443, 550
letters written by 5, 13, 54, 102–104, 106–107, 109–110, 112, 126–131, 142–144, 274–276, 309–316, 539–540
On Invention (De Inventione Rhetorica) 5, 103–104, 114–115, 278–282
On Oratory (De Oratore) 12, 103, 114n174, 114–120, 136, 137, 156, 160, 161, 282–293, 399n48, 409–579
Orations (various) 121–126, 130, 138, 299–308
Orator (Ad M. Brutum Orator) 13, 103, 105–106, 114–115, 120, 294–296
Plato and 46–47, 107, 140, 183, 288, 297, 298
For Caelius, (Pro Caelio, oration) 126, 299–304
Quintilian and 159–161, 352, 354, 356, 359
Seneca and 155, 345, 348
Tacitus and 164, 169, 174–176, 376–377, 378, 378n, 381, 383
Tusculan Disputations (Tusculanae Quaestiones) 5, 103, 105–106, 131–132, 136–139, 146, 334–339
See also eloquence
See also Middleton, Conyers (Life of Cicero)
See also Plutarch
See also Publilia (Cicero’s 2nd wife)
See also style
See also Terentia (Cicero’s 1st wife)
See also Tullia (Cicero’s daughter)
civility
conversation and 27, 213, 213n, 224, 411–412, 461, 491, 554, 568, 575
in Isocrates (works) 213, 213n8, 224
virtue and 29, 343, 436, 470, 502, 543
See also civilization
See also conversation
See also morals, morality
civilization 20, 59, 84, 140
civil affairs 57, 84, 92, 118, 288, 358, 359, 568
civil society, institutions 260, 388, 443, 525
civil law 327, 377, 380, 487, 519, 543, 548
civil roles and duties 327, 417, 501
See also civility
See also civil war, English
civil war, English 110, 537
Clarendon, Earl of
See Hyde, Edward
Clarke, Adam (scholar) 18, 54
Clarke, R. (poet) 150
Classicism, neoclassicism 5–6, 16, 20, 22, 23, 26, 33–37
education and 14, 16, 21–23, 33
classical era 3, 17
criticism of works 25, 29–31
Longinus and 387
Classical scholars 4, 22, 30, 35
Classical works, authors x, 3, 5–18, 20–22, 24, 26–27, 28, 33–37
See also canon
See also education
See also translation
Clitarchus (historian) 396, 397n, 542
Clodia Metelli (Roman woman)
in Cicero (Orations) 300–303
Cockman, Thomas (trans.) 47, 114, 131–137, 502, 550, 563
See Cicero (Offices)
Codrington, Robert (trans.) 148
Coelius (Caelius)
See Cicero (For Caelius)
Coles, Elisha (lexicographer) 193n8, 219n20, 251n27, 280n27, 301n57, 407
Collier, Jeremy (cleric, critic) 26, 416, 434, 513
colloquy
See conversation
comparison(s) 21, 293, 293n46, 437, 458, 536, 568
among classical authors 45, 58, 69–70, 72, 81, 108, 111, 128, 139, 184
among people, characters 264, 334, 377n31
See also character(s)
See also invention
See also metaphor(s)
Common Prayer, Book of 469, 534
conduct
Aristotle and 258, 465
Cicero and 102, 105, 109–110, 113, 130, 133, 280, 281, 303, 315, 319, 333, 334, 336, 430, 490, 505, 531
conduct books, guides vii–x, 27, 53, 55, 59–60, 101, 105, 133, 258, 319, 334, 389, 495
character and 49, 59, 101, 109–110, 113, 174, 230, 231, 233, 235, 241, 242, 257, 333, 334, 336, 416, 429, 490, 529
conversation and 27–29, 61, 136, 174, 441
delivery and 27–28, 109, 491
Demosthenes and 241–243, 257
Isocrates and 55, 59, 211, 217, 230, 231, 233, 235
Longinus and 389
Plato and 207
private 241, 257, 303, 334, 430, 485
public 241, 243, 280, 281, 315, 383, 390, 391, 505
Tacitus and 383
See also morals, morality
See also character(s)
Constable, John (scholar) 26–27
consuls 167
See also senators
conversation 27–29, 440–442
literature and 33, 369, 453
Aristotle and 90, 259, 261, 262, 411
arrangement and 136, 173, 202, 207, 207n46, 261
Cicero and 13, 28, 111, 118, 120, 133–134, 135–136, 137, 142–143, 144–146, 319, 321–322, 323–324, 333, 425, 438, 442, 521
colloquy 23
conduct, morality and 27–29, 61, 136, 174, 441, 143, 162, 207n46, 210n3, 264, 276n13, 319, 324, 442, 453, 455, 579
criticism and 11, 136, 142, 226, 264, 265–273, 429, 491, 493, 579
delivery and 28, 48, 161, 442, 136, 146, 202–204, 224, 226, 265–273, 321–322, 324, 411, 431, 442, 574, 579
Demosthenes and 111
dialogue and 50, 102, 136, 142, 145, 163, 172, 175, 368, 442
education and 24, 25, 33, 51, 55, 133, 137, 142–143, 144–145, 146, 174, 189, 195n, 196, 197n, 198, 202–204, 204n29, 205, 209, 210n3, 211n4, 294, 355, 369, 376–377, 377n31, 385, 389, 439, 442, 453, 455
Isocrates and 210, 210n3, 213, 213n9, 215n15, 219, 222, 224, 226, 229, 232
letters and 28, 74–75, 129
logic, reason and 32, 48, 51, 90, 146, 229, 355
Longinus and 389, 442
private settings and 13, 26, 28, 33, 51, 90, 94, 100, 105, 117, 118–119, 133–134, 135–136, 137, 142, 144–146, 160, 162, 172, 198, 210, 213n9, 215n15, 232, 259n67, 261, 264, 319, 323, 368, 369, 431, 439, 442, 451, 471, 547
public settings and 48, 94, 160, 198n, 200n19, 261, 442
Plato and 48, 50, 51, 55, 58, 189, 189n3, 195n, 196, 197n, 198, 198n, 200n19, 202–204, 205, 207
Quintilian and 160–161, 355
Seneca and 146
social interaction and 84, 90, 144, 162, 197n, 209, 210, 213, 213n9, 219, 222, 262, 264, 303, 319, 321, 333, 369, 389, 411, 425, 438, 442, 506
Tacitus and 163, 172, 174–175, 368, 369, 376–377
Theophrastus and 94, 100, 264, 265–273
style and 55, 58, 120, 161, 172, 175, 202–204, 204n28, 438, 442, 453, 471, 480, 521, 564
See also conduct
See also discourse
See also morals, morality
See also delivery
Cooper, Thomas (lexicographer) 252n34
Cotgrave, Randle (lexicographer) 239n5, 245n11, 250n21, 259n64, 296n51, 386n5
Crantor (philosoher) 338
Crashaw, Richard (cleric and poet) 548
criticism 25–26, 78, 386n6, 499, 537, 560
Aeschines 69, 73
aesthetic 26–27
Aristotle and 82, 395n32
in Cicero’s works 13, 31, 126, 136, 145, 297
Cicero and 69, 106, 107–112, 117, 274n3
conversation and 27, 94, 100, 136, 145, 344, 513
Demosthenes and 66, 69–70, 71, 73–75
Isocrates and 297–298
of letters, epistles 74, 126, 171, 172
literary 29–30, 33, 171, 386n6
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 11, 177, 385–403, 395n32
moral or ethical 12, 29, 31, 34, 69, 73, 94, 99, 100, 274n3, 506, 513, 540
of oratory 4–5, 12–13, 46–49, 62, 66, 70–71, 73–74, 75, 100, 102, 107, 109, 117, 121, 126–127, 136, 139, 171, 176, 323, 331, 338, 394n28, 394–403, 417, 419, 425–426, 428, 452, 456, 469, 478, 486, 494, 499, 504, 509, 515–516, 528, 530, 561, 566–567
Plato and 48
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 156, 162
rhetorical viii–x, 12, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27, 31, 32, 37, 39, 69, 70, 73–74, 99, 108, 126, 156, 162, 169, 171, 177, 386, 386n6, 561
in Seneca (works) 344
Tacitus and 169, 167
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 162, 176, 369, 382n51
in Theophrastus (Characters) 94, 99–100
translation and 34, 36–37
vocabulary of 39, 70, 120, 136, 146
See also taste
See also beauty
critic(s) 9, 25, 31, 36, 43, 66, 75, 120, 166, 167, 369, 382n51, 386n6, 387, 451, 485, 498, 548, 561
See also taste
See also beauty
See also criticism
Cummings, Robert (scholar) 22, 41, 43, 77, 78n81, 79n82, 106
Cybele (Roman goddess) 144
D., J. (trans.) 141
Dacier, André (trans.) 37, 41, 44–45, 47–52, 109, 189–209
on Plato 189n2, 192n5, 193n7, 194n10, 196n13–14, 199n, 200n18, 200n20, 201n22–23, 204n28–30, 205n38–40, 206n42, 208n52, 209n
Davies, Sir John (poet) 534
Dawson, Thomas (trans.) 63, 65, 69, 74
De Amicitia (work)
See Cicero (On Friendship)
declaim, declaimer 139, 238n3, 336, 348, 379, 445–446, 507, 526, 531, 540
See also declamation
declamation(s), declamatory 33, 125, 158–160, 164, 345, 367, 445–446, 478, 483, 542
See also genre(s)
See also harangue
See also oration(s)
See also oratory
De Claris Oratoribus (work)
See Cicero (Brutus)
decorum, decorous 134, 136, 429, 447–448
Aristotle on 447
Cicero on 317–319, 321, 323, 430, 456
indecorum 453
See also delivery
See also adaptation
See also propriety
See also style
Defoe, Benjamin Norton (lexicographer) 193n6, 204n32, 208n50, 219n21, 221n23, 222n24, 222n26, 225n, 242n13, 251n25, 255n43, 256n53, 257n56, 258n61, 275n8–9, 276n12, 277n14, 277n15–16, 280n23–24, 280n26, 285n35, 287n, 290n, 297n, 299n54, 300n, 302n59–60, 304n64, 305n67, 313n, 324n77–78, 329n81–82, 330n, 340n2, 341n4, 341n6, 347n21, 348n24, 350n27, 370n11, 396n37–38, 398n46
De Inventione (work)
See Cicero (On Invention)
delivery ix, 72, 109, 144, 369n10, 450–451
Aristotle and 252, 255, 261, 427, 463, 528
in Cicero (works) 133–134, 136, 138, 144, 146, 295, 318, 322, 325, 332, 412, 415, 418, 419, 427, 430, 442, 444, 449, 453, 476, 460, 482, 487, 492, 495, 503, 508, 519, 531, 533, 542, 569, 578
beauty and 317–318, 320–322, 424
criticism 26–28, 39, 163, 181, 374, 376, 377, 412, 414, 415, 419, 473, 487, 503, 506, 507, 513, 531, 542, 544, 556, 569, 575, 576
of Demosthenes 61–62, 71–72, 74
Isocrates and 212n7, 213, 224
Longinus and 181, 184, 291, 388, 429, 572
of oratory 71, 93, 144, 239, 252, 261, 283, 322, 345, 357, 410, 418, 421, 427, 444, 450–451, 454, 460, 463, 476, 506, 528–529, 542, 554, 556, 569
Plato and 48
Quintilian and 455, 460
Seneca and 146, 155, 340–343, 345, 348
Tacitus and 163, 374, 376, 377
Theophrastus and 98
women and 414, 427, 429, 449, 454, 459–460, 470, 513, 539, 556, 572, 578
See also affectation
See also beauty
See also decorum
See also elocution
See also style
Demonicus, To (work)
See Isocrates (To Demonicus)
Demosthenes 61–75, 237–243
Aeschines and 62–63, 66–67, 69–70, 73–75, 200n19, 540
Aristotle and 50
Cicero and 55, 58, 61–62, 68, 69, 72, 84, 107–108, 110–111, 121, 125, 182, 184, 295, 388n10, 529, 550
canonical status, influence 5, 11, 21–22, 61–75, 107–108, 110–111, 121, 125, 181, 182, 288n, 381, 388n10, 557
First Olynthian, The (speech) 237–243
Homer and 70, 376
letters written by 62, 74
life and ethos 68–70, 237n2, 238n3, 239n8, 381n48
Isocrates and 62, 72
Longinus and 184, 396, 403, 418, 458, 485, 492, 520, 556, 572–573, 574
Lucian and 70
Plato and 47, 50, 72
Quintilian and 158, 364
Tacitus and 169, 376, 381
Denham, John (poet, trans.) 141, 481, 551, 556
De Officiis (work)
See Cicero (Offices)
De Oratore (work)
See Cicero (On Oratory)
deportment 28, 48, 137, 155, 224, 418, 429, 542
See also air
See also character
See also delivery
See also carriage
See also manner
De Senectute (work)
See Cicero (On Old Age)
dialectic, dialectick 48–51, 353n5
See also genre(s)
See also logic
See also philosophy
dialogue, dialogues 5, 12, 13, 24, 26, 33, 46, 48, 49, 50, 70, 78, 83, 84, 102, 136, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144, 172, 173, 174–175, 200n20, 206, 207n46, 328, 451, 533
See also conversation
See also genre(s)
See also Cicero
See also Plato
See also Tacitus
Dialogue on Oratory (work)
See Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory)
dictionary, dictionaries ix–x, 10, 23, 38–39, 80, 92, 144, 147, 407
See also Johnson, Samuel
Digby, John (trans.) 53, 56, 59, 60, 210n2–3, 211n, 212n6–7, 213n8–10, 214n12–13, 215n14–15, 217–227
Digby, Sir Kenelm (natural philosopher) 571
Dillon, Wentworth (4th Earl of Roscommon, poet) 485, 518, 576
Dinsdale, Joshua (trans.) 53, 54–55, 57–58, 61, 228–236
Dinter, Martin T. (scholar) 158
Dionysius I (the Elder) of Syracuse 48
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (historian and rhetorician) 50, 393n26
Dionysius Longinus
See Longinus
discernment 25–26, 125, 136, 181, 224, 251, 258, 300, 331, 380, 387, 398, 402, 403, 446, 449, 465, 498, 500, 507, 519, 550, 560, 561
See also criticism
See also taste
See also prudent, prudence
discourse 5, 90, 136, 394–397, 451–453
rhetoric, eloquence and 24, 39, 45, 46, 250, 254, 255, 259, 289, 290, 292, 293, 295–297, 337, 344, 358, 358n12, 362, 394, 416, 417, 427, 446, 451–453, 466, 477, 478, 483
oral 26, 51, 90, 98, 144, 153, 189n2, 196, 416, 198–200, 202–208, 210, 212, 213, 224, 230, 268, 272, 273, 288, 323, 362, 394, 427, 450–453, 478, 483–484, 508, 532, 539
philosophical 51, 84, 90, 139, 142, 144, 152, 155, 168, 197, 210n3, 224, 225, 226, 228, 238n4, 336, 431, 437, 451, 453, 532, 578
private, familiar (conversation) 5, 23, 27, 47, 51, 90, 98, 134, 143, 173, 175, 189n3, 197, 210, 222, 226, 259, 323–325, 396, 418, 438, 441–442, 451–453, 535
public 23, 168, 226, 288, 347, 359, 453, 478, 483
written 24, 44, 47, 55, 84, 96, 138, 139, 140, 141–142, 145, 153, 155, 225, 228, 230, 452, 507
disposition
canon of arrangement 72, 142, 249, 318, 349, 394, 401n49, 449, 456–457, 463, 473, 508, 519, 530
attitude or character 71, 92, 226, 234, 235, 252, 252n33, 264n3, 283, 296, 332, 333, 349, 360, 379, 394, 413, 421, 454, 456–457, 480, 492, 506, 530, 556, 561, 562, 570
See also affection(s)
See also arrangement
See also character(s)
See also morals, morality
dispute, disputation 5, 57, 431, 452, 481, 515, 518, 536, 554, 560, 579
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 90, 251, 259n64, 261–262, 380n39
in Cicero (works) 139, 322–323, 336, 435, 482, 484, 510, 514, 516, 522, 533, 535, 538, 548, 555, 563
in Demosthenes (orations) 421
in Isocrates (works) 227
in Plato (Protagoras) 189n2, 194, 197n, 200n19, 202–204, 204n30, 205, 205n38, 208, 209
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 353, 353n5, 354, 426, 466
in Seneca (works) 155, 344
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 380, 383
See also logic
See also philosophy
Dolman, John (trans.)
dissuasion 88, 128, 256n46, 259–260, 512, 558
See also persuasion, persuasive
Domitian (Roman emperor 81–96) 160
Donne, John (poet and scholar) 474
Dryden, John (poet and trans.) 109, 166, 288n, 342n10, 346n17, 410, 413, 423, 428, 429, 434, 435, 436, 441, 451, 456, 462, 467–468, 470, 473, 474, 478, 480, 481, 482, 482–483, 483, 485, 487–488, 489, 494, 503, 504, 510, 518, 522, 523, 524, 527, 529, 530, 535, 537, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 546, 547, 556, 557, 559, 561, 563, 564, 567, 568, 570, 574, 576, 577, 579
Duncan, William (trans.) 123, 124, 126, 304–308
Duppa, Brian (cleric and writer) 265n6
E., B. (lexicographer) 205n36
Education vii–x, 24, 25, 79, 506
Cicero and 304, 334, 438, 446
Humanist 20, 21–23
Isocrates and 227
Latin and/or Greek language 7, 16, 52, 102, 126
Longinus and 385, 389
of orators 47, 58, 84, 88, 108, 117, 121, 134, 138–140, 156, 159, 161, 163, 182, 200, 267n13, 336, 354, 409, 421, 434, 438, 442, 446, 453, 466, 484, 494, 495, 497, 526, 531–532, 541–543, 549, 552, 558, 574, 579
rhetoric and vii, 4–5, 18, 21–23, 25–26, 84, 97, 109, 121, 128
self-education 7, 33, 61, 153
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 377–379
Theophrastus and 264
See also classics, classicism
See also conversation
See also criticism
See also learning
See also liberal arts
See also Quintilian
See also rhetoric
effeminacy, effeminate 136–137, 322, 345, 388, 449, 455, 459–460, 476, 448, 491, 492, 495, 499, 576
See also delivery
See also female(s), feminine
See also style
See also women
Ehninger, Douglas (scholar) 5, 6
elocution, elocutionary
as style 358n12, 369, 369n10, 372, 379, 424, 429, 447, 451, 462–464, 480, 498, 546, 568
as delivery 93, 369n10, 427, 450–451
as rhetorical movement 5, 6, 68, 369n10
eloquence 31, 461, 462, 464–466, 478, 512, 541, 548
logic and 32–33
morality and 29–31
rhetoric and 20–23, 23–26, 28, 31, 360, 541
Aristotle and 87, 247, 257–259, 263, 424, 465
Cicero and 278–282, 284, 288, 289–291, 293, 294–298, 304, 325–326, 327, 336, 409, 410, 414–415, 417, 419, 425, 430, 433–434, 439, 442, 446, 448, 450, 451, 453, 457, 462, 466, 467, 474, 478, 480, 481, 494, 497, 498, 500, 505, 506, 507, 508, 516, 519, 523, 526, 529, 531, 548, 550, 556, 559, 561, 566, 574
Demosthenes and 238n3
Isocrates and 228–229, 229n34, 452
Longinus and 180–182, 387–388, 397, 429, 464–465, 539
Plato and 190–192, 200, 206
Quintilian and 352–353, 356–361, 364–366, 427, 460, 466, 477, 479
Seneca and 344, 348
Tacitus and 163, 368–369, 371–375, 377–383, 479
See also discourse
See also rhetoric
Emilsson, Eyjólfur (scholar) 387n9
emulate, emulation 222, 234–236, 264, 295–296, 419, 467–468, 577, 580
See also imitation
Enfield, William (trans.) 68
English language ix, x, 10, 15, 17, 20, 23, 35, 36, 38, 83, 119, 134, 150, 158, 357n
See translation(s)
Ennius, Quintus (poet) 285, 335, 338–339, 356, 413
enthymemes ix, 244–247, 244n4, 249, 253, 424, 431, 465, 536, 549, 560, 568, 576
See also logic
Epictetus (Stoic philosopher) 94
Epicurus (philosopher) 56, 309, 380
epistle(s), epistolary
See letter(s), epistles
essay(s)
as genre vii, x, 5, 78, 100, 140–142, 146, 176, 296
by Bacon 438, 458
by Cicero 3, 140–145
biographical 55, 56, 80, 108, 112, 139, 170
historical 50, 73, 138, 179
by Longinus 5, 177–185
by Montaigne, Michel de 167–169
moral 25n39, 143, 145, 166, 167, 495
philosophical 12, 14, 93, 110, 143, 145
political 124, 166
prefatory or editorial 34, 50, 66, 110, 142, 153, 166, 170, 181
rhetorical 10, 26, 68n, 73, 95, 96, 108, 110, 138, 159n255, 182, 399
rhetoric of x, 50, 100, 573
by Seneca 3, 5, 14, 146–156
See also genre(s)
ethics
in Aristotle (works) 11, 76, 77, 81, 82, 91–93, 97, 431
conversation and 27
education and 121, 168, 371
eloquence or rhetoric and 20, 24, 31, 41, 61, 73, 80, 91–93, 110, 115, 382n51
philosophy and 82, 253n36, 361n14
See also Aristotle (Ethics)
See also character(s)
See also ethos
See also morals, morality
ethos
appeals to 68, 73, 74, 82, 128, 136, 144, 388n11, 389n12, 391n19
in Aristotle (works) 245n8, 252n32, 252–253, 254n42, 262n78, 454
audience and 125, 134
in Cicero (works) 282–283, 457, 462, 492, 526
conversation and 146, 161
in Demosthenes (orations) 68
definitions and concepts ix, 90, 99, 105, 106, 109, 110, 116, 184, 245n8, 361n13–14
delivery and 28, 48, 74, 99, 182
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 184
of orators 46–50, 55, 58, 68–69, 71, 73–75, 85, 92, 107, 112–113, 116, 118, 125, 140, 143–144, 160, 164–165, 174–176, 184, 228, 230, 248, 252, 261–262, 282, 353–367, 431–433, 441, 452, 489, 493, 506, 525–526, 533, 541, 546, 548, 569, 574
of rhetors 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 29, 30, 31, 66, 68–70, 79–83, 85–86, 97–98, 106–113, 134, 158–160, 167–170, 180–184, 388n11
of philosophers 45–50, 75, 79–83, 91, 150–151, 388n11
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 361n13–14, 361–363
in Seneca (works) 146
style and 182
See also biography, biographies
See also character(s)
See also ethics
See also morals, morality
Erasmus, Desiderius (philosopher) 13, 21, 34
Euripides (tragedian) 21, 475, 508
Evans, Frank B. (scholar) 40
Fabianus, Papirius (rhetorician and philosopher) 155, 344, 348
Fabius (Tacitus’ addressee in Dialogue on Oratory)
See Justus, Lucius Fabius
Fairfax, Edward (trans.) 412, 558
Felton, Henry (cleric and academic) 437
female(s), feminine 65, 232, 272, 391, 448, 498, 459, 492
eloquence and 6, 111, 118, 154, 297, 298, 310, 352–353, 375–376, 381, 425
nature and 285, 395
virtue and 211, 301–302, 332, 333, 349
weakness and 183, 366, 392, 402
See also effeminacy, effeminate
See also women
Fénelon, François (trans.) 394n29, 395n32
on Demosthenes and Cicero 69
Fenton, Elijah (poet and trans.) 577
Ferguson, J. (trans.) 123
figures
Cicero and 291–293, 467, 479–480, 541, 550
Longinus and 397, 399, 403, 414, 423, 424, 427, 463, 484, 498, 505, 507, 565, 572
Quintilian and 438, 478, 479
rhetorical 21, 26, 38, 45, 49, 50, 73, 75, 100, 159n255, 172n284, 412, 425, 428, 433, 439, 452, 453, 462, 466, 473–474, 477–478, 478–479, 494, 507, 520, 556, 564, 572
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 479
See also style
See also tropes
First Olynthian, The (work)
See Demosthenes (First Olynthian, The)
Flemming, Abraham (trans.) 127
Francis, Philip (trans.) 64, 67–68, 69, 71, 75
French
See translation(s)
friendship 24, 130, 145, 162, 213
conversation and 27–28, 29, 51
letter-writing and 55, 58
See also Cicero (On Friendship)
Gaillet, Lynée Lewis (scholar) 6
gait 136, 345
See also delivery
Galba, Sergius (Roman emperor) 335, 357
Gallienus, Publius (Roman emperor) 388, 389
Gally, Henry (trans.) 95, 96
Garth, Dr. Samuel (trans.) 64
gender 6–7, 28, 136–137, 146, 512, 533, 534
See effeminacy
See women
genre(s) 7, 24, 57, 62, 91, 100, 102, 118, 128, 130, 143, 184
See conversation
See criticism
See essay(s)
See oratory
See poetry
gesture 23, 27–28, 71–72, 98, 133, 136, 322, 345, 348n25, 415, 417, 419, 427, 429, 430, 444, 454, 460, 463, 470, 476, 495, 557
See also delivery
Gibbons, Thomas (rhetorician) 4, 171–172
Gillespie, Stuart (scholar) 78n81, 79n82
Gillies, John (trans.) 53, 55, 76, 77, 82, 91–93
Glanvill, Joseph (cleric and writer) 346n17, 451, 506, 522, 559
Glenn, Cheryl (scholar) 7
Gokin, Thomas (trans.) 63
Goldberg, Sander M. (scholar) 129n216
good breeding
See breeding, good
Gordon, Thomas (trans.) 123, 124, 165, 166
Gorgias (sophist and rhetorician) 56, 288, 297, 352, 355, 355n7, 356–358, 396
See also Plato (Gorgias)
govern 32, 49, 60, 84, 93, 135, 199, 212, 217, 257, 267, 281, 296, 312, 344, 372, 424, 452, 465, 512, 559, 561, 562
See also government
government 60, 92, 118, 125, 154, 168
Aristotle and 258
Cicero and 281, 307, 326, 490, 493, 507, 516
Isocrates and 217–223, 228, 230–233, 235–236
self-government 33, 59–60, 154, 209n53, 324, 452, 455
Seneca and 343
Tacitus and 382–383
See also politics
Gracchi (tribunes and social reformers) 281, 335, 383
grammar 32, 119, 126–127, 138, 161, 192, 193n8, 378, 380, 409, 452, 533, 545, 548
See also liberal arts
grandeur 399, 400, 403
See style
See sublimity
Granville, George (Lord Lansdowne, trans.) 64, 66, 72
Gray, Thomas (poet) 82
Greek
See translation(s)
Green, Lawrence D. (editor) 89
Grenewey, Richard (trans.) 165, 166
Grew, Nehemiah (plant anatomist and writer) 293n44, 481
Grimald, Nicholas (trans.) 133
Guérin, Charles (scholar) 158
Guthrie, William (trans.)
of Cicero (works) 113, 115, 117–119, 123, 125, 127, 130, 132, 133, 134, 142, 275n10, 282–293, 299–304, 309–312
of Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 157–158, 160–162, 352–367, 399n48
H.C.
See C., H.
H., L. (lexicographer) 248n16
Haine, William (trans.) 127
Halifax, George Savile (writer) 60
Hall, John (trans.) 178–180, 401n49
harangue(s) 51, 58, 74, 88, 90, 189n2, 204, 204n28, 259n66–67, 270n27, 305n66, 445–446, 451, 476, 483–484, 552
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 255, 259
in Cicero (works) 325, 335, 438, 442, 482, 484, 497, 532, 565
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 428, 484, 565
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 373, 382
in Theophrastus (Characters) 267
See also oration(s)
See also declamation(s), declamatory
Harington, John (trans.) 141
Hayward, Sir John (historian) 438, 455, 513, 543
Healey, John (trans.) 95
Hegesias of Magnesia (rhetorician and historian) 397
Heliodorus of Emesa (novelist) 87
Hemming, Samuel (trans.) 132, 141
Herbert, George (cleric, poet, and writer) 451
Hermagoras of Temnos (rhetorician) 355, 358, 531
Hermogenes of Tarsus (rhetorician) 180
Herodotus (historian) 21, 50, 297, 337
Herzberg, Bruce (editor) 10, 14
Hesiod (poet) 196, 208n51, 225, 335
Heumann, Christoph August (editor) 171, 368n3
Hicks, Robert (trans.) 132, 141, 143, 145, 146
historian(s) viii, 4, 22, 75–76, 112, 162, 168–169, 182, 388, 437, 457, 469, 569
See also history, histories
history, histories vii, 24, 57, 67, 69, 121, 162, 163, 167, 168–170, 183, 184
See also genre(s)
Hobbes, Thomas (trans.) 77–79, 83–86, 88, 244–246
Hogarth, Richard (lexicographer) 204n31, 391n18, 396n37
Holland, Philemon (trans.) 244n4, 247n14
Holmes, John (schoolmaster and rhetorician) 4, 6, 9, 179, 397n41
Homer (poet) 17, 21, 22, 35, 50, 70, 191, 195, 196, 226, 288n, 335, 376, 400, 402, 403, 433, 557
Homer, Henry (trans.) 131
Hooker, Richard (theologian) 346n19, 421, 443, 444, 446, 494, 496, 545, 547, 551, 558, 559, 571, 572, 579
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, poet) 21, 119, 365n, 471, 518, 577
Howard, Edward (trans.) 132, 141
Howell, Wilbur Samuel (scholar) 6
Hudson, John (trans.) 177, 179
Humor, humorous 24, 98–99, 128, 194, 195n10, 208n50, 264, 268, 284–287, 296, 319–320, 322, 333, 341, 345, 349, 375n24, 384, 399, 411–412, 418, 432, 439, 449, 458, 470, 472, 482, 484–486, 491, 497, 506, 520, 522, 535–536, 550, 552, 561–562, 565, 568–570, 577
See also disposition
See also raillery
See also wit
Hyde, Edward (1st Earl of Clarendon, historian) 412, 500, 531, 553, 567, 569
hyperbole(s) 347, 430, 463, 470, 474, 556, 573
See also style
Hyperides (orator) 357, 376, 416, 417, 422, 425, 481, 485, 535, 565, 574
Ianziti, Gary (scholar) 91n121
imagination 81, 88, 317, 365–366, 382, 401, 440, 462, 472–473, 576–577
imitation
character and 113, 225, 236, 257, 293, 363, 411, 467–468, 570
delivery and 232, 286, 415
education and 24, 29, 68, 72, 84, 177, 184, 323, 463–464, 467–468
eloquence and 21, 57, 107–108, 113, 184, 296, 574
genre and 13, 93, 98, 136, 253n37, 324, 360, 454
style and 4, 72, 75, 130, 288n39, 323–324, 413, 513, 572
translation and 16, 34–36, 99–100, 111, 175, 413, 526
See also emulate, emulation
interrogation 242n12, 260–261, 525, 528, 533, 555
See also question(s)
Institutes of Oratory (work)
See Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory)
Invention
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 245, 252–253, 424–425, 427, 431
in Cicero (works) 334, 421, 451, 522, 530–531, 535, 543
in Isocrates (works) 229, 230n
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 394–395, 398, 424–425, 427, 449
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 358, 358n12, 359
in Rhetoric to Alexander 258–259
rhetorical canon of ix, 37, 72, 115–116, 126, 142, 184, 259n62, 368n4, 421, 423, 426, 427, 437, 440, 449, 451, 456, 463, 474, 535, 539, 552, 577, 578
in Theophrastus (Characters) 265
See also Cicero (On Invention)
See also logic
See also logos
Isocrates 52–61, 210–236
Aristotle and 336
canonical status, influence 5, 11, 24–25, 32–33, 52–55, 288
life and ethos 55–58, 452
Cicero and 54, 107, 116, 140, 288, 296, 297–298, 336
Demosthenes and 62, 72, 116
letters written by 52–55, 210–227
Longinus and 418
Plato and 297–298
Quintilian and 356, 359
Nicocles 33, 52–56, 59–61, 88, 116, 140, 228–236
Nicocles “hymn to logos” 33, 61, 88, 140, 229n34
To Demonicus 11, 25, 52–56, 58, 59–61, 210–217, 221n22
To Nicocles 52–56, 59–61, 217–227
J.D.
See D., J.
jest, jesting 94, 136, 160, 251n24, 271n30, 284, 287, 324, 440, 450, 471, 489, 535, 546, 556, 570, 573, 578
See raillery
Johnson, Benjamin (poet and playwright) 285n37, 363n, 413, 421, 467, 492, 507, 518, 535, 546, 562, 566, 573, 576
Johnson, Samuel (lexicographer and writer) 9, 10, 23, 39, 80, 153, 200n21, 203n27, 205n36, 206n41, 213n11, 252n31, 261n72, 261n75, 265n4, 265n6, 267n14, 275n6, 278n17, 279n21, 280n28, 285n37, 288n, 289n, 293n44, 303n61–63, 305n66, 340n3, 341n5, 342n10, 343n, 344n14–15, 346n17, 346n19, 347n22, 379n34–35, 379n37–38, 381n42, 381n45, 382n50, 383n, 390n, 391n17, 398n45, 407
Jones, Edward (trans.) 115, 120–121, 294–298
Judge(s) 27, 34, 86, 181, 267, 386n6, 387
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 244–249, 254–255, 457
in Cicero (works) 282–284, 286, 291, 326–327, 519, 521, 542, 548
in Isocrates (works) 219, 222, 229–231
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 395, 397, 572
in Plato (Protagoras) 196, 202
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 357–358, 360–361, 364–365
in Seneca (works) 350n28
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 371, 379, 383
See also critic(s)
judgment 61, 92, 153, 161, 167, 175, 193n6, 391, 455, 489, 498–499, 528–530, 537, 543, 546–549, 551, 559, 562, 566, 575, 577, 578
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 249, 252–253, 257, 262n78, 420, 573
in Cicero (works) 288, 294, 296–297, 299, 318, 323, 333, 337, 415, 433, 450, 466, 511, 559
in Isocrates (works) 210, 216, 227, 229, 230n, 233–236
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 398–400, 521
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 359, 361
in Seneca (works) 346–347
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 368, 385
See also discernment
See also criticism
Justus, Lucius Fabius (senator) 172, 175, 368
kairos 100, 146
See adaptation
Kames, Lord (Henry Home, rhetorician) 6, 171
Kennett, Basil (trans.) 110, 138
Kersey the younger, John (lexicographer) 194n9, 205n35, 216n, 222n25, 243n, 247n15, 275n7, 281n30, 293n43, 301n57–58, 344n15, 396n39
K.C.
See C., K.
Knolles, Richard (historian) 440
L.H.
See H., L.
La Bruyère, Jean de (trans.) 95–100
La Neufville, Bauduyn de (trans.) 89
The Lady’s Rhetorick (work) 408, 414–578
See also women
Laelia (Cicero’s mother-in-law) 415
Laelius (work)
See Cicero (On Friendship)
Laelius, Gaius, consul 162, 281, 320, 335
See also Cicero (On Friendship)
Laërtius, Diogenes (biographer) 49, 80, 200n20
Lambini, Dionysius (editor) 127
Langhorne, William and John (trans.) 109
Latin
See translation(s)
Lawson, John (rhetorician) 4, 6, 9
learning 16, 23, 32, 36, 102, 135, 199, 258, 380n40, 387n8, 394n29, 429, 443, 474, 506, 516, 518, 535, 544, 555, 561
Cicero and 135, 143, 144, 274n3, 288, 290, 312, 319, 324, 335, 336, 427, 438, 442, 449, 457, 474, 480, 494, 516, 558
Demosthenes and 158–159
eloquence and 181, 258, 290, 344, 387, 466, 474, 494, 558
Longinus and 181–182, 386–387, 394
Quintilian and 426, 466
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 370, 378
See also education
LeGrand, Antoine (philosopher) 151
Leland, Thomas (trans.) 63, 67–69, 71, 75, 239–243
Lennox, Charlotte (writer)
Female Quixote, The 551, 575
Lepidus 335
L’ Estrange, Sir Roger (trans.) 46–47, 132, 134, 142–143, 149–151, 153–155, 156, 166, 317–328, 340–351, 407, 416, 432, 436, 440, 475, 476, 491, 514, 522, 568, 575, 577
letter(s), epistle(s)
in Rhetoric to Alexander 256–257
dedicatory, editorial 46, 65, 128, 143, 166–167, 171–172, 368–369
genre vii, 5, 7, 12–13, 26–28, 30, 34, 36, 52–55, 74–75, 102, 112–113, 128–130, 138, 150, 154–156, 162, 171–172, 174, 167, 169, 171–172, 179, 183, 210, 268, 390–391, 535
See also genre(s)
See also style
Le Vayer, François de La Mothe (writer) 169–170
Lianeri, Alexandra (scholar) 8–9, 15
liberal arts 121, 193n8, 199, 409, 424, 446, 507, 516, 545
See also art, arts
See also education
See also grammar
See also logic
See also rhetoric
Life of Cicero (work)
See Middleton, Conyers (Life of Cicero)
See Cicero (life and ethos)
Lipsius, Justus (editor) 147, 152, 169
literature, literary viii, 4, 5, 7–9, 11, 14, 16–17, 24–30, 34–36, 38, 43, 78, 183, 378n33, 386n6, 387n8, 394n29, 409, 499, 506, 513
in Cicero (works) 311, 323, 335, 497, 520
in Gillies, John (Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics) 76
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 370, 371n
See also belles lettres
See also canon(s)
See also Classics, classicism
See also criticism (literary)
See also genre(s)
See also writing
Livius, Titus (Livy, historian) 335, 348
Locke, John (philosopher and rhetorician) 6, 12, 265n4, 386n6, 409, 413, 429, 451, 459, 466, 474, 487, 488, 489, 495, 499, 510, 522, 530, 531, 558, 562, 566, 573, 579
Lodge, Thomas (trans.) 148, 150, 152–153
Logan, James (trans.) 132, 141
logic 6, 20, 23, 25, 32–33, 47–49, 86, 244, 246, 247, 249, 250, 253, 254, 354, 379
in Isaac Watts (Logick) 32–33
See also argument
See also conversation
See also logos
See also syllogism(s)
logos ix, 245n10, 254n42
See also Isocrates (Nicocles “hymn to logos”)
See also invention
Longinus [Dionysius or Cassius] 177–185, 385–403
Aristotle and 180, 395n32
canonical status, influence 5, 9, 11–12, 14, 17, 25, 27, 45, 49, 87, 159, 171, 177–180, 184–185, 395n32, 557
on Cicero 69, 184
criticism and 171, 177, 180–182, 183–184, 386–387
on Demosthenes 69, 71, 74, 388, 574
Demosthenes and 184, 396, 403, 418, 458, 485, 492, 520, 556, 572–573
on Homer 402–403
letters written by 391–392
life and ethos 180–184, 385–392, 393n25
On the Sublime (work) 5, 17, 25, 27, 37, 69, 177–185, 385–403, 405–580
Plato and 49, 388
on Sappho 400–402, 572
Lucan [Lucanus], Marcus Annaeus (poet) 26, 518
Lucian of Samosata (satirist, rhetorician) 21, 70, 578
Lysias (orator) 55, 298, 359, 376, 565, 574
Lyttelton, George (1st Baron Lyttelton, poet and writer) 107, 109, 112, 113
Mack, Peter (scholar) 164
Main, W.H. (trans.) 138
manliness, manly 75, 291, 301, 319, 346, 449, 459, 476, 479, 492
See also masculine
manner, manners 491–492
delivery and 28, 181, 252, 429, 491–492, 324, 340–343, 414, 415, 435, 436, 473, 482, 492
character, morality and 43, 84, 97, 99, 153, 168, 211n, 215–217, 219, 223, 224, 232, 234, 235, 241, 252, 261–262, 264, 280, 283, 286, 320, 321, 334, 361–363, 373, 379, 383, 388, 411, 416, 438, 441, 444, 448, 456, 473, 485, 568
style and 66, 81, 125, 135, 139, 168, 169, 200, 203, 227, 240, 270, 283, 291, 298, 301, 328, 336, 361–363, 368, 379, 380, 400, 411, 454, 457, 479, 568
See also ethos
See also genre(s)
Martinho, Marcos (scholar) 158
Maternus, Curiatius (tragedian)
in Tacitus’ Dialogue on Oratory 14, 167, 173–174, 176, 369–384
masculine 6, 136–137, 345, 371, 492–493
See also delivery
See also female(s), feminine
See also manliness, manly
See also style
Massey, William (trans.) 132, 141
Matris of Thebes (orator) 397
Maury, Abbé Jean-Sifrein (rhetorician) 172
McCartney, W. (trans.) 132, 134
Medea (of Greek mythology)
Euripides’ Medea 316, 370
in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 376
Melmoth, William (trans.) 29–30, 127, 130–133, 142, 163–164, 166–167, 170–176, 312–316, 368–384
critic, role of 29–30, 170–176, 382n51
memory
of rhetorical audience 202, 210, 224, 262, 279, 357
rhetorical canon of ix, 270, 349, 368, 427, 450, 453, 473, 500, 530, 537, 558
Menœceus (Greek mythology) 338
Mentor(s), mentoring vii, 13, 33, 59, 143, 145, 163, 176, 210n3, 495
See also tutor(s), tutoring
See also education
Merouville, Charles (editor) 122
Messalla, Lucius Vipstanus (orator) 376n29
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 176, 376
metaphor(s) 26, 118, 154, 171–172, 176, 182, 206n44, 292, 347, 391n18, 437, 462, 471, 474, 479, 503, 510–511, 520–521, 530, 556, 566, 568
See also comparison(s)
See also style
Metrodorus of Lampsacus, the younger (philosopher) 380
Midas, King (of Greek mythology) 337
Middleton, Conyers (biographer) 13, 107, 109, 112–113, 117, 119, 127, 129, 274–278, 493, 539, 550
mien 322, 417, 444, 447, 460, 491, 495–496
See also delivery
Miller, George (trans.) 177
Miller, Thomas P. (scholar) 7
Milton, John (poet) 305n66, 413, 417, 418, 438, 444, 452, 459, 462, 488, 490, 494, 518, 524, 537, 540, 550, 557, 558, 561, 562, 572, 576, 577
Monk, Samuel H. (scholar) 179
Montaigne, Michel de (philosopher) 167–169
Morabin, Jacques (historian) 101–102, 109, 111–113, 128
morals, morality 28, 29, 31, 49, 55, 57, 94, 99, 101, 113, 116, 128, 133, 135, 153, 162, 167, 350, 359, 379
moral philosophy 29, 31, 49, 73, 140, 168
See also biography, biographies
See also character
See also conduct
See also education
See also ethics
See also ethos
See also manner, manners
Mordaunt, Charles (Earl of Peterborough, trans.) 64, 237–239
More, Henry (philosopher and poet) 476, 541
Morell, Thomas (trans.) 150, 156, 407
Morland, Dr. Joseph (trans.) 64, 66
Mornay, Philippe de (trans.) 41, 150
Morrice, John (scholar) 107
Mossop, James (trans.) 64, 68
Müller, Anja (scholar) 28n
Murphy, Arthur (trans.)
on Tacitus 164, 166, 167, 170, 173, 174–176, 368n2, 370n13–14, 372n18–19, 373n20, 375n24–25, 376n29, 377n30–31, 378n32–33, 381n48–49
Murphy, James Jerome (editor) 10, 89
music 23, 28, 139, 192, 193n8, 197, 199, 266, 273, 291, 335, 354, 354n6, 378, 380, 482, 491, 500, 545
of delivery or style 58, 291, 417, 450, 462, 500, 522, 540, 565
nature, natural
audience 26, 232, 284, 332, 344, 361, 398
beauty 27, 537
delivery 136, 322–323, 412, 417, 418, 419, 449, 460, 486, 492
eloquence vii–viii, 23–24, 111, 229, 244, 247, 279, 284, 369, 371, 399n48, 424, 425, 427, 429, 439, 481, 493
genius or talent 24, 71, 184–185, 251n26, 267n13, 280, 285, 294, 298, 319, 365, 365n, 371, 397, 399, 421, 424, 425, 470, 480, 481, 515, 525, 530, 537, 578
ideas, truth 71, 82, 100, 250, 334, 362, 364, 418, 439, 442, 539, 578
religion 208n52, 517, 579
style 75, 81, 170, 345, 348, 413, 417, 418, 423, 458, 461, 473, 480, 486, 520
sublimity 395–396, 425, 454, 557, 578
See also female(s), feminine
See also women
neoclassicism
See classics, classicism
Nero (Roman emperor) 149, 151, 287, 375, 375n24
Newbery, John (trans.) 63, 66, 69, 72, 75
Newton, Richard (trans.) 96
Newton, Thomas (trans.) 141
Nichols, Thomas (trans.) 35
Nicocles (work)
See Isocrates (Nicocles)
Nicole, Pierre (philosopher)
Art of Thinking 87–88
Nicomachean Ethics
See Aristotle (Ethics)
North, Sir Thomas (trans.) 35, 108
On the Sublime (work)
See Longinus (On the Sublime)
oration(s) 46, 53–55, 62, 67–68, 113, 121–124, 151, 246, 248, 252, 253, 262, 400
See also Cicero (Orations)
See also Demosthenes (Orations)
See also Isocrates (works)
See also orators
See also oratory
orators 11, 31, 49, 56, 61–63, 133, 144, 150–151, 162, 167, 169, 189n2, 210, 267, 345–346, 348, 368–381, 394, 428
See also education
See also ethics
See also oration(s)
See also oratory
oratory 3–5, 39, 46, 52–53, 57, 84, 90, 116, 118, 125, 133, 136, 139–140, 155, 160–161, 163, 171, 184, 228, 246, 248, 254–255, 327–328, 335–336, 348, 371, 372, 374, 419, 424, 430, 437, 451, 463–466, 483, 493, 500, 504, 516, 519, 528, 534, 439, 569, 572
See also Cicero (works)
See also criticism
See also genre(s)
See also oration(s)
See also orators
See also Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory)
See also style
See also Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory)
Origen of Alexandria (scholar) 386
Orpheus (of Greek legend) 195, 196, 376
Otway, Thomas (playwright) 562, 577
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, poet) 74, 376, 453, 564
Parker, Samuel (trans.) 133, 141–143, 145–146, 328–334
Parry, George (trans.) 115–117
passion(s) 125, 146, 347, 360, 362, 365, 379, 388, 397, 399, 400, 402
See also affection(s)
pathos ix, 99, 245n9, 252n32, 254n42, 282, 361n14, 395n33, 400, 505
See also passion(s)
patriot, patriotism 30, 35–37, 58, 67, 256n48, 275n10, 301, 331, 350
See also morals, morality
See also politics
Patsall, J. (trans.) 157, 161–162, 352n2, 353n4–5, 354n, 355n, 356n8, 358n11–12, 361n14, 362n15–16
Peacham, Henry (poet and writer) 537
Pearce, Zacharias (trans.) 114, 131, 177, 179–180
pedant(s), pedantry, pedantic 81, 89, 118, 454, 474, 506–507, 514
Cicero and 446, 507, 522
Longinus and 418, 423, 429, 507
See also learning
Pepe, Cristina (scholar) 88
Pericles (orator) 181, 200, 288, 320
Peripatetics 380, 380n39
See also philosophers
Perrin, Bernadotte (scholar) 108n156
persuasion, persuasive viii, 9, 20, 23, 29, 39, 84–85, 245n11, 265n4, 410–411, 430, 457, 464–466, 492, 511–512, 541, 547, 569
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 80, 82, 88, 247–251, 254, 259, 260, 262, 455, 512
in Cicero (works) 116, 128, 139–140, 280, 313, 316, 418
in Demosthenes (orations) 65, 70–71, 240, 512–513, 542
in Isocrates (works) 57–58, 60–61, 229n34, 229–230, 233–234, 236
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 185, 394, 401n49, 512
in Plato (works) 40, 47–48, 53, 207–208
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 356, 356n8, 357–358, 358n11–12, 359, 361, 364–366
in Rhetoric to Alexander 90
self-persuasion 31, 60–61, 146, 229n34, 229–230, 233–234, 240, 313, 372, 375
in Seneca (works) 146, 151, 154
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 170, 372, 375, 377–379
in Theophrastus (Characters) 94
See also dissuasion
See also genre(s)
See also rhetoric
Peterson, William (scholar) 165
Petra, Gabriel de (trans.) 177, 179
Phaedrus (work)
See Plato (Phaedrus)
Philip II of Macedon 58, 64, 67, 79–80, 89, 237n2, 238, 238n3, 239, 239n8, 240, 242, 381n48
Phillips, Edward (lexicographer) 280n25, 342n12
Philosopher(s) viii, 14, 31, 88, 180, 479, 515–516, 534, 555
Aristotle 79–82, 82
Cicero 107, 276n13
in Cicero (works) 133, 139, 144–145, 288, 298, 321, 328, 338, 414, 460, 466, 516, 522, 558, 574, 579
Demosthenes 75
Isocrates 55–59
in Isocrates (works) 61, 219, 228–230, 229n34
Longinus 180, 210
Plato 40–41, 43, 43n5, 47–49, 51
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 353, 353n5
Seneca 147–149, 344, 347–348
in Seneca (works) 152–153
Theophrastus 94
in Theophrastus (Characters) 266
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 381, 381n49, 386
See also philosophy
philosophy 12, 137, 140, 155, 182, 184, 288, 334–336, 515–516
See also morals, morality
See also philosopher(s)
Phocylides (poet) 225
piety 29, 59, 81, 241, 252n31, 283, 299, 300, 337, 350, 444, 492, 517
See also morals, morality
See also religion
Plato 40–52, 189–209
Aristotle and 45, 79, 80, 81, 86
canonical status, influence 5, 11–12, 40–52, 200, 387n9
Cicero and 46–47, 107, 140, 183, 288, 297, 298
dialogues by
Demosthenes and 47, 50, 72, 75, 381
Gorgias (work) 12, 44–45, 49, 352, 356, 357, 358
Homer and 50
Isocrates and 297–298
life and ethos 45–50
Longinus and 49, 388, 453, 503, 520–521
Phaedrus (work) 42, 44–45, 49, 140, 297–298, 352
Protagoras (work) 189–209
Quintilian and 352, 356, 358–359
In Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 380, 381
Plautus, Titus Macchius (playwright) 21, 335, 573, 578
Pliny the Younger (orator) 30, 31, 131, 164, 167, 169–170, 375n25
Plutarch (historian and biographer) 244n4, 451, 484
on Aristotle 79
on Cicero 107–109, 111, 274n3, 276n13
Classical education and 21
on Demosthenes 61
on Demosthenes and Cicero 69
Longinus and 385
Parallel Lives 31
poetry 14, 16, 24, 36, 75, 134, 139, 163, 182, 184, 370, 371, 374, 375, 380, 382, 398, 400, 402
See also genre(s)
See also poets
See also style
See also translation(s) (poetic)
poets 182, 225, 318, 335, 347, 374, 376, 394
See also poetry
politeness 48, 162, 394n29, 448, 461, 519–520, 552, 568, 579
Aristotle and 447, 568
Cicero and 175, 290, 302, 336, 449, 519–520, 561
Longinus and 394
polite conversation 48, 431
polite learning 394, 394n29
Quintilian and 162, 363
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 175, 377
See also character(s)
See also conversation
See also good breeding
See also morals, morality
politics 28, 57, 59, 67, 68, 71, 84, 85, 89, 110, 116, 118, 124, 167, 168, 253, 256, 259
See also government
Pollio, Gaius Asinius (orator, playwright, historian) 311, 348, 376, 410
Poole, Joshua (lexicographer) 249n19
Pope, Alexander (poet, trans.) 16–17, 416–417, 423, 440, 451, 455, 456, 461, 464, 471, 481, 494–498, 500, 505, 519–520, 538, 541, 544, 549–550, 553, 557, 564, 571, 577, 579
The Aeneid 35
The Dunciad 497
The Iliad 35
Porphyry (philosopher) 387, 387n9
Portal, Andrew (trans.) 63, 66, 69, 71, 73–75
Poulakos, Takis (scholar) 33n, 59, 61, 229n31
Priestley, Joseph (rhetorician and chemist) 4, 6
Prior, Matthew (poet) 447, 457, 468, 474, 494, 499, 528, 556, 557–558
Pro Caelio (oration)
See Cicero
pronunciation 72, 134, 323, 436, 463, 528–529, 564, 575
See also delivery
See also style
Prosser, Michael H. (scholar) 11
propriety 26, 28, 36, 57, 73, 92, 94, 99–100, 133, 136, 143, 162, 170, 254n40, 428–429, 513, 529–530, 532, 541, 577
in Cicero (works) 289, 291, 320, 417, 421, 425, 430, 453, 457, 476, 515, 530–533
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 499
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 361, 361n13, 462
in Seneca (works) 346
See also adaptation
See also decorum
Protagoras (philosopher) 56
in Plato (Protagoras) 41, 50–52, 189–209
Protagoras (work)
See Plato (Protagoras)
prudent, prudence 396
Publilia (Cicero’s 2nd wife) 310
puerility 297, 297n52, 397, 397n42, 445
See style
Pulteney, John (trans.) 178, 180
question(s)
conversation and 144, 191–192, 200, 203, 207, 261, 271, 368, 441–442, 453, 489, 552, 561
philosophical 152, 192, 195, 198–200, 201n23, 203–204, 207–208, 246, 255, 278, 295, 317–318, 339, 355, 368, 377, 382, 482, 487, 518, 533–534, 555
rhetorical genre 90, 93, 259–260, 259n65, 260n70–71, 261, 300, 338, 354–355, 378–379, 455, 533–534, 555
See also interrogation
Quincy, John (apothecary and medical writer) 570
Quintilian, Marcus Fabius 156–162, 352–367
Aristotle and 25, 27, 358
canonical status, influence 5, 11, 22, 26–27, 29, 119, 156–160, 161, 170, 171, 176, 427, 458, 465
life and ethos 156, 158–160
Cicero and 27, 69, 72, 107, 160, 352, 354, 359, 455
Demosthenes and 61, 69, 72, 74, 364, 381n48
Institutes of Oratory (work) 5, 25, 69, 119, 156–162, 164, 174, 352–367, 419, 426, 438, 455, 460, 462–463, 466, 477–479
Longinus and 180
Plato and 358
Tacitus and 163–164, 170–171, 174, 176
raillery 11, 48, 118, 134, 160, 205n35, 271, 285, 319–321, 324, 363, 486, 519, 535–536, 546, 565, 568, 570
See also humor
See also jest, jesting
See also satire
See also wit
Raleigh, Sir Walter (explorer and writer) 205n36, 390n
Ramus, Petrus (philosopher) 83
Rapin, René (rhetorician)
on Aristotle 119
on Cicero 109–111
on Cicero and Demosthenes 69, 72
on Plato 43, 45, 48
on Plato and Aristotle 81–82
ratiocination 252, 255, 259
See also logic
Ray, John (naturalist and writer) 426
Raylor, Timothy (scholar) 83, 85–86
Rayner, William (trans.) 96
reason 29, 32–33, 43, 47, 51, 56, 58, 61, 71, 81, 88, 101, 118, 125, 139, 146, 168, 277n15, 293n43, 350, 391, 419, 423, 430, 442–444, 451–452, 465, 472, 478, 485, 489, 493, 501, 511–512, 515–516, 518, 536–539, 545, 547, 560, 566, 571
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 244n4, 247, 250, 252–253, 254, 424, 427, 528
in Cicero (works) 274, 279–281, 285, 291, 304, 317, 320, 323–324, 326, 329–330, 332, 335, 415, 476, 484, 502, 519, 523, 532, 559
in Demosthenes (orations) 238, 238n4
in Isocrates (works) 218, 223, 228–229, 231, 233–234
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 393–394, 396, 402, 402n50, 462
in Plato (Protagoras) 199, 205, 209n52
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 364
in Rhetoric to Alexander 256–258, 259n64, 264
in Seneca (works) 350
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 368, 381–382
See logic
Reid, Thomas (rhetorician) 6
religion 25, 28, 29, 60–61, 65, 83–84, 129, 138, 156, 208n52, 357n, 459, 469, 492, 517, 537, 551, 566, 579
Cicero and 279, 332, 492
Isocrates and 59–60, 212, 228, 232
Watts, Isaac and 32–33
Plato and 43, 45, 37, 51–52, 195
See also morals, morality
See also piety
restraint 29, 60, 100, 261n72, 280, 306, 311, 313, 352n2, 369, 410, 455, 458, 546–547, 562, 576–577
See also morals, morality
See also government
rhetoric, rhetorician(s) 276n13, 395n32, 409, 425–426, 430, 436, 439, 445–446, 452, 456, 461–463, 469, 470, 473–474, 476–479, 512, 529, 537, 541–542, 545, 548, 552, 558, 560
in Aristotle (Rhetoric) 244–247, 248–255, 512, 526
in Cicero (works) 289–290, 298, 323, 336, 418, 493, 542, 569
in Isocrates (works) 229
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 385, 388, 388n10, 393n26, 411, 419, 425, 427, 472–473, 506, 510, 512, 539, 558
in Rhetoric to Alexander 256
in Quintilian (Institutes of Oratory) 352–360, 466
in Seneca (works) 349
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory) 377, 381, 382n49, 384
rhetorical culture x, 5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 20–37, 85, 91, 121, 146
See also Aristotle (Rhetoric)
See also discourse
See also eloquence
See also persuasion
See also Rhetoric to Alexander
Rhetoric to Alexander (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum) 89–91, 256–263
See also Aristotle
Richardson, Samuel (novelist) 65
Clarissa (work) 491
Rogers, John (cleric and writer) 493, 534, 538, 539, 555
Rollin, Charles (historian and rhetorician) 157, 161–162, 365n
Roscommon, 4th Earl of
See Dillon, Wentworth
Rowe, Nicholas (poet and trans.) 95
Rufus, Marcus Caelius
In Cicero (Pro Caelio) 299–304
Rutherford, John (trans.) 124
Rutledge, Steven H. (scholar) 164n263
Sallust (historian) 21, 123–124
Sappho (poet) 400–401, 425, 452, 572, 578
in Longinus (On the Sublime)
satire 14, 21, 24, 48–49, 70, 94, 98–99, 100, 374, 489, 497, 535, 544, 568, 570
See also raillery
Savage, John (trans.) 53–55, 127–129, 149, 156, 210–216
Savile, Henry (trans.) 166
Scott, Joseph Nicol (lexicographer) 205n34, 285n37, 348n25, 381n47, 386n6
Secundus, Julius (orator) 173, 369–371, 377, 382, 382n51
in Tacitus (Dialogue on Oratory)
Seed, Jeremiah (cleric) 561
senate, senators 27, 85, 107, 125, 160, 162, 167, 248, 255, 274n2, 278n18, 299, 304–306, 309, 323, 325, 332, 334, 372, 375, 376n29, 381, 383, 390, 410, 415, 443, 460, 486, 490, 504, 550
See also judge(s)
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the Elder (rhetorician) 151
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the Younger (philosopher) 146–156, 340–351
Aristotle and 43
canonical status, influence 3, 5, 11, 14, 21, 29, 146–156, 578
on Cato the Younger 350
Cicero and 345, 348, 578
letters written by 3, 14, 146–150, 152–156, 343–351
life and ethos 146–147, 150–151, 350–351
on Plato 43
Tacitus and 168
Morals (work) 340–351
Shakespeare, William (playwright) 303n61, 305n66, 344n15
quotations 413, 421, 434, 443, 444, 450, 451, 454, 456, 457, 459, 464, 468, 469, 471, 474, 475, 487, 491, 494, 497, 501, 512, 522, 524, 535, 538, 539, 540, 541, 543, 547, 552, 553, 556, 559, 561, 562, 563, 566, 567, 569, 571, 572, 573, 575, 576, 577
Sherburne, Sir Edward (trans.) 149
Sheridan, Thomas (rhetorician) 4
Sidney, Sir Philip (poet) 87, 398n45, 426, 471, 534, 544, 550, 553, 559
Silenus (of Greek mythology) 337
Simonides of Ceos (poet) 196
Simpson, Joseph (trans.) 94
Smart, Christopher (poet and author) 509
Smith, Adam (philosopher and rhetorician) 6
Smith, John (rhetorician) 4
Smith, William (trans.) 17, 74, 177–180, 182, 183, 385–392, 398–403
Socrates (philosopher) 180, 288–289, 320, 324, 336, 343, 516
in Plato 43, 45–48, 51–52, 54, 136, 138, 189–209, 297–298, 352, 357, 359, 442
See also Plato
Solon (statesman and poet) 320, 338, 561
sophism(s) 50, 57, 86, 516, 554–555
See also logic
sophists 41, 47, 49, 51–52, 52–53, 56, 189n2, 191–193, 193n7, 194–196, 196n12–14, 197, 199, 199n17, 200n18, 201n22, 202n24, 204n29, 208n52, 259, 266, 296, 298, 512, 554–555
See also Gorgias
Sophocles (tragedian) 50, 376, 396
South, Robert (cleric and writer) 423, 458, 485, 502, 509, 515, 544, 545, 554, 563, 575, 577
Spens, Henry (trans.) 42
Spectator, The (periodical) 413, 416, 436, 470
See also Addison, Joseph
See also Steele, Richard
Spenser, Edmund (poet and trans.) 41, 413, 431, 436, 499, 543, 544, 558, 561, 562
Sprat, Thomas (cleric and writer) 432, 500, 510, 579
Stanhope, Colonel James (trans.) 64
Stanley, Thomas (scholar) 43
Steele, Richard (essayist) 128
See also Tatler, The (periodical)
See also Addison, Joseph (co-editor)
Stillingfleet, Edward (theologian and scholar) 489, 554
Stirling, John (rhetorician) 4
Stoicism, stoics 14, 29, 380
See also Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the Younger
strain 277, 293, 323, 362, 365, 413, 470–471, 505, 511, 533, 556–557, 566
See also delivery
See also style
style 26–27, 36–37, 154–155, 163, 171, 210n3, 343, 345, 393
of Aristotle 81, 82, 180, 267n11
Aristotle and 260n70, 454, 520, 528, 529, 568
of Cicero 109, 111, 120, 121, 125, 130, 136, 142, 175, 301, 302, 348, 519
Cicero and 121, 139, 291–293, 294–296, 301, 316, 320, 457, 464, 466, 467, 519, 520, 521, 532–533, 549
conversational 55, 120, 136
criticism of vii, ix, 397, 399, 400, 467, 519, 520, 521
Demosthenes and 62, 72, 74, 75
Isocrates and 57–58
of letters, epistles 10, 105, 128–130, 172, 183, 274–275, 390–391, 533
of Longinus 180, 181
Longinus and 184, 463, 464–465, 465–466, 520, 521
of oratory 50, 71–72, 75, 97, 102, 107, 111, 120, 125, 136, 168, 184, 240n9, 253–254, 286, 288, 291–292, 295–298, 346, 348, 352, 357–358, 394–403, 411, 422, 427, 429, 430–431, 433, 437, 439, 447, 449, 453, 457, 461–464, 467, 476–480, 484, 498–500, 506, 508, 510, 512–513, 520–521, 530, 549, 552, 557, 561, 564, 575, 578
of Plato 49–50
Plato and 207
Quintilian and 161, 354, 463, 466, 479
Seneca and 340–349
of Theophrastus 100
Tacitus and 168–169, 175
women’s 301, 463, 473
See also delivery
See also figures
See also manner, manners
See also tropes
sublime, sublimity 26, 49, 55, 58, 62, 177, 184, 185, 394, 395, 397–400
See also Longinus (On the Sublime)
Swift, Jonathan (cleric, satirist, and poet) 27n44, 410, 429, 431, 435, 444, 445, 454, 455, 456, 483, 485, 491, 499, 506, 514, 518, 519, 524, 527, 537, 541, 546, 552, 556, 561
Sydenham, Floyer (trans.) 42, 44
Sydney, George Frederic (trans.) 124
Sydney, Henry (politician) 89, 465
Sydney, Sir Philip (poet) 89
Syllogism(s) ix, 244, 244n4, 245, 249–250, 251n26, 252–254, 560, 573
See also logic
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius 162–176, 368–384
canonical status, influence 5, 11, 14, 18, 162–167, 171, 176
letters written by 172, 368–369
life and ethos 167–170, 368–369
Cicero and 107, 175
Dialogue, attribution of 131, 161, 162–165, 170–171, 174
Dialogue on Oratory (work) 5, 14, 18, 30, 131, 162–176, 368–384, 479
Seneca and 168
Tasker, Elizabeth (scholar) 6
taste 25–27, 56, 81–82, 107, 161–162, 175, 393n25, 395n32, 448–449, 461, 472–473, 538–539, 558, 560–561
in Cicero (works) 291, 295–296, 442, 449, 499, 501, 561
in Longinus (On the Sublime) 387, 399
in Plato (Protagoras) 207
See also criticism
See also discernment
Tatler, The (periodical) 411, 437
See also Steele, Richard
Taylor, Jeremy (cleric and writer) 340n3, 422, 443, 446, 459, 517, 553
Taylor, Thomas (trans. and philosopher) 42, 45
Temple, Sir William (statesman and essayist) 418, 456, 570, 571
Terentia (Cicero’s wife) 128, 312–315, 493
See also Cicero
See also women
Theobald, Lewis (trans.) 41
Theodectes (rhetorician and poet) 357
Theodorus of Byzantium (sophist and orator) 297, 437, 463
Theognis of Megara (poet) 225
Theophrastus (philosopher) 94–100, 264–273
canonical status, influence 5, 11, 14, 24, 29, 87, 297
Aristotle and 87, 97–98
Characters (work) 94–100, 264–273
Cicero and 97
life and ethos 97–98, 264
Theramenes (statesman and orator) 56, 288
Thomas, Elizabeth (poet) 155
Thomas, Thomas (lexicographer) 250n22
Thomson, James (poet, author) 267n14, 289n, 294n49, 303n62, 310n, 336n, 352n3, 374n, 399n47, 550
Thrasymachus (sophist and rhetorician) 288, 297
Thucydides (historian) 75, 297, 414, 453, 530
Tierney, Michael (scholar) 80
Tillotson, John (writer and prelate) 172, 411, 470, 551, 552, 556, 579
Toland, John (writer) 139
Topham, Richard (trans.) 64
Toulmin, Joshua (trans.) 53, 55
Toupii, John (trans.) 177
Tourreil, Jacques de (trans.) 66, 69, 71, 72, 74, 75
translation(s)
for audiences 17, 123
cultural role x, 4–6, 8–10, 14–17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 33–37
English to Latin 132
French to English 43, 71, 95, 96, 101, 108, 110, 111, 151, 167, 178
Greek to English 3, 41, 53, 77, 94, 108, 178
Greek to Latin 40, 52, 55, 62, 77, 94, 177
Latin to English 3, 104, 115, 127, 148, 157, 165
paraphrase 3, 105, 126–127, 148–149, 149n233, 150, 153–155, 160, 179, 183, 274n5, 449
poetic 16–17, 36, 104, 141, 148, 150, 401n50
See also canon
See also Classics
trivium 25, 32
See liberal arts
tropes 4, 172n284, 400, 414, 473, 480, 518, 564
See also figures
See also style
truth 31, 49, 86, 172, 246, 249–252, 344, 361, 363, 394
See also invention
See also logic
Tullia (Cicero’s daughter) 31, 312
See also Cicero
See also women
Tunstall, James (writer) 129
turn 564–565
figures of speech or thought 119, 120, 200n20, 296, 347, 387, 403, 417, 430, 437, 448, 461, 470, 479, 482, 500, 507, 518, 536, 549, 557, 578, 579
See also style
Tusculanae Quaestiones (work)
See Cicero (Tusculan Disputations)
tutors, tutoring vii, 13, 25, 33, 79, 89, 97, 102, 151, 256n51, 296, 362n16, 389n14, 409, 495, 522
See also education
Valerian (Roman emperor) 388
van den Berg, Christopher S. (scholar) 176
Varius (Lucius Varius Rufus, poet) 376
vice, vices 87, 92, 94, 99–100, 209, 216, 228, 234–236, 257, 266n8, 302, 324, 330, 347–348, 350, 379, 395, 397, 411, 444, 447, 459, 469, 478, 488–489, 508, 559, 569, 570, 573, 574, 575
See also character
See also ethics
See also morals, morality
See also virtue
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, poet) 21, 22, 26, 364, 366, 376, 410, 413
virtue 29, 45, 55, 57, 58, 75, 87, 106, 116, 252, 257, 347, 349, 350, 353, 356, 362, 363, 388, 389
See also character
See also ethics
See also morals, morality
See also vice
voice 81, 130, 154, 190, 195–196, 283, 285, 288, 306, 323–324, 343–344, 366, 376, 383, 401, 401n50, 415, 417, 419, 424, 435, 439, 449, 454, 460, 463, 476, 529, 533, 540, 556, 558, 564, 568
See also delivery
Vopiscus, Flavius (historian) 183, 391
Wake, William (cleric and writer) 434, 500
Waller, Edmund (poet) 480, 548
Walsh, William (poet) 543
Walton, Izaak (writer) 515
Ward, John (rhetorician) x, 4, 6, 9
Warr, John (trans.) 158–159
Wase, Christopher (trans.) 123, 132, 137, 138, 140
Watson, John Selby (trans.) 120, 157
Watt, Robert (editor) 18, 147, 148n229
Watts, Isaac (logician, hymn writer) 346n19, 385n3, 445, 476, 482, 483, 485, 506, 507, 513, 522, 544, 547, 554, 560, 564, 579
Logick (work) 32–33
Webbe, Joseph (trans.) 127
Welsted, Leonard (trans.) 37, 178–179, 181–182, 183
Wesdalius, Raynaldus (trans.) 41
West, Gilbert (trans.) 41
White, James (trans.) 124
Whitgift, John (prelate and scholar) 455, 540
Wilson, Bernard (trans.) 132, 141, 143, 144, 146
Wilson, Thomas (trans.) 64
wit 21, 35, 75, 97, 108, 118, 161, 189n2, 229n32, 284–288, 300n56, 344–345, 346n19, 347, 349, 387n8, 396, 415, 418, 421, 423, 439–440, 442, 449, 458, 476, 485–486, 504, 519, 538–539, 545–546, 552, 558, 561, 570, 574, 577–578
See also raillery
Wolf, Hieronymus (editor and trans.) 52–55, 62
woman 232–233, 300–301, 303, 312, 392, 422, 434, 436, 444, 449, 460, 480, 493, 509, 522, 537, 547, 561, 571, 574, 576
womanlike, womanish 459
See also Berenice, Queen of Cilicia
See also Clodia Metelli
See also female, femininity
See also Medea (character)
See also Publilia (Cicero’s 2nd wife)
See also Sappho (poet)
See also Terentia (Cicero’s 1st wife)
See also Tullia (Cicero’s daughter)
See also women
See also Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
women 4, 128, 135, 137, 163, 183, 389, 392
audiences 444, 301, 312, 366, 392
beauty and 137, 389
Cicero and 128, 300–303, 309, 310, 312
conduct and 27, 136
conversation and 27, 33, 389
education and 6–7, 24, 33, 102, 163, 389, 409
family and 59, 233, 303, 309, 310, 389
Isocrates and 232–233
in public 28, 422, 531
masculinity and 493
marriage and 232–233, 300, 309, 310, 436, 446
nature and 561
reading and 65, 68, 102, 105, 113, 117, 135
rhetoric and 7, 316, 389, 391–392, 401–402, 412, 423, 449, 452, 509, 513, 522, 574
Theophrastus and 272, 272n34
virtue and 300–303, 389, 409, 422, 446, 473, 547, 573, 576
See also delivery
See also effeminacy, effeminate
See also female(s), feminine
See also style
See also woman
See also The Lady’s Rhetorick
Woodward, John (naturalist) 539
Wotton, Sir Henry (poet, author) 439, 489, 557, 570
Wotton, William (scholar) 158
Xenophon (historian and philosopher) 380, 399, 569
Zajko, Vanda (scholar) 8–9, 15
Zenobia (Queen of Palmyra) 183–184, 385–392
Zosimus (historian) 180
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