[60]
But for these early efforts Cicero
[p. 441]
substituted his splendid de Oratore and therefore cannot be
blamed for giving false instruction. I will now
return to Hermagoras. He was the first rhetorician
to teach that there was a basis concerned with competence, although the elements of this doctrine are
found in Aristotle,1 without however any mention of
the name.
1 Rhet. II. xv. 8.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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