Book 1
9.5
take for example the statement Crates on seeing an ill-educated boy, beat his paedagogus, or a very similar example which they do not venture actually to propose as a theme for a moral essay, but content themselves with saying that it is of the nature of such a theme, namely Milo, having accustomed himself to carrying a calf every day, ended by carrying it when grown to a bull. All these instances are couched in the same grammatical form The sense is not clear: it appears to refer to the stereotyped form in which the chria was couched. and deeds no less than sayings may be presented for treatment.
9.6
Short stories from the poets should in my opinion be handled not with a view to style but as a means of increasing knowledge. Other more serious and ambitious tasks have been also imposed on teachers of literature by the fact that Latin rhetoricians will have nothing to do with them: Greek rhetoricians have a better comprehension of the extent and nature of the tasks placed on their shoulders.
