SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

The Orator’s Education · Institutio oratoria

Quintilian

Translated by Harold Edgeworth Butler

Twelve books on training a good man skilled in speaking, from the nursery to the forum.

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  • Latin: ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi1002.phi001, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Harold Edgeworth Butler, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi1002.phi001.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 53

  1. 1Book I · preface, chapters 1–2
  2. 2Book I · chapters 2–5
  3. 3Book I · chapters 5–6
  4. 4Book I · chapters 6–10
  5. 5Book I · chapters 10–12
  6. 6Book II · chapters 1–4
  7. 7Book II · chapters 5–12
  8. 8Book II · chapters 12–17
  9. 9Book II · chapters 17–21
  10. 10Book III · chapters 1–6
  11. 11Book III · chapter 6
  12. 12Book III · chapters 6–8
  13. 13Book III · chapters 8–11
  14. 14Book IV · preface, chapter 1
  15. 15Book IV · chapters 1–2
  16. 16Book IV · chapter 2
  17. 17Book IV · chapters 2–5
  18. 18Book V · preface, chapters 1–9
  19. 19Book V · chapters 9–10
  20. 20Book V · chapters 10–11
  21. 21Book V · chapters 11–13
  22. 22Book V · chapters 13–14
  23. 23Book VI · preface, chapter 1
  24. 24Book VI · chapters 1–3
  25. 25Book VI · chapter 3
  26. 26Book VI · chapters 3–5
  27. 27Book VII · preface, chapters 1–2
  28. 28Book VII · chapters 2–3
  29. 29Book VII · chapters 3–4
  30. 30Book VII · chapters 4–10
  31. 31Book VIII · preface, chapters 1–3
  32. 32Book VIII · chapter 3
  33. 33Book VIII · chapters 3–5
  34. 34Book VIII · chapter 6
  35. 35Book IX · chapters 1–2
  36. 36Book IX · chapter 2
  37. 37Book IX · chapters 2–3
  38. 38Book IX · chapters 3–4
  39. 39Book IX · chapter 4 · 4.13–4.79
  40. 40Book IX · chapter 4 · 4.80–4.147
  41. 41Book X · chapter 1
  42. 42Book X · chapters 1–2
  43. 43Book X · chapters 2–5
  44. 44Book X · chapters 5–7
  45. 45Book XI · chapter 1
  46. 46Book XI · chapters 1–2
  47. 47Book XI · chapters 2–3
  48. 48Book XI · chapter 3 · 3.52–3.119
  49. 49Book XI · chapter 3 · 3.120–3.184
  50. 50Book XII · preface, chapters 1–2
  51. 51Book XII · chapters 2–8
  52. 52Book XII · chapters 8–10
  53. 53Book XII · chapters 10–11