[3]
As I have already said,1 it consists mainly in the
statement of genus, species, difference and property.
For example, if you wish to define a horse (for I will
take a familiar example), the genus is animal, the
species mortal, the diffrence irrational (since man also
is mortal) and the properly neighing. Definition is
employed by the orator for a number of different
reasons.
1 V. x. 55.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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