Chiedere ad un 'oracolo' la via che porta all'eloquenza: Catone, (Cicerone), Quintiliano. In margine a Quint. Inst. XII 11, 5
- Authors: Casamento, Alfredo
- Publication year: 2023
- Type: Capitolo o Saggio
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/621760
Abstract
The paper deals with the presence of Cato the Censor in the Latin rhetorical tradition, focusing on the apparently ambivalent evidence in the Institutio oratoria. It then identifies in a Quintilian’s passage in Book 12 a probable reference to the Censor, inspired by Cicero's Cato maior.