Marcus Fabius Quintilianus to his
friend Trypho, greeting
You have daily importuned me with the request
that I should at length take steps to publish the
book on the Education of an Orator which I dedicated
to my friend Marcellus. For my own view was that
it was not yet ripe for publication. As you know I
have spent little more than two years on its composition, during which time moreover I have been distracted by a multitude of other affairs. These two
years have been devoted not so much to actual writing
as to the research demanded by a task to which
practically no limits can be set and to the reading
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Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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