Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Preface, chapter pr, section 2

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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus to his friend Trypho, greeting

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[2] Further, following the precept of Horace who in his Art of Poetry deprecates hasty publication and urges the would-be author

To withhold
His work till nine long years have passed away,

I proposed to give them time, in order that the ardour of creation might cool and that I might revise them with all the consideration of a dispassionate reader.

Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.

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