[6]
If my critics disagree, let them
provide me with an alternative method. Are we
first to deliver ourselves up to the sole service of
the teacher of literature, and then similarly to the
teacher of geometry, neglecting under the latter
what was taught us by the former? And then are
we to go on to the musician, forgetting all that we
learned before? And when we study Latin literature, are we to do so to the exclusion of Greek? In
fine, to have done with the matter once and for all,
are we to do nothing except that which last comes
to our hand?
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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