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1479
Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 4.1.2
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1. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 1.6.44, 1.7.1, 12.3.6, 12.10.50 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

1.6.44.  If it be defined merely as the practice of the majority, we shall have a very dangerous rule affecting not merely style but life as well, a far more serious matter. For where is so much good to be found that what is right should please the majority? The practices of depilation, of dressing the hair in tiers, or of drinking in excess at the baths, although they may have thrust their way into society, cannot claim the support of usage, since there is something to blame in all of them (although we have usage on our side when we bathe or have our hair cut or take our meals together). So too in speech we must not accept as a rule of language words and phrases that have become a vicious habit with a number of persons. 1.7.1.  Having stated the rules which we must follow in speaking, I will now proceed to lay down the rules which must be observed when we write. Such rules are called orthography by the Greeks; let us style it the science of writing correctly. This science does not consist merely in the knowledge of the letters composing each syllable (such a study is beneath the dignity of a teacher of grammar), but, in my opinion, develops all its subtlety in connexion with doubtful points. 12.3.6.  And yet such a general would bear a very close resemblance to the advocate who leaves much of the detail that is necessary for success to the care of others, more especially in view of the fact that this, the most necessary element in the management of a case, is not as difficult as it may perhaps seem to outside observers. For every point of law, which is certain, is based either on written law or accepted custom: if, on the other hand, the point is doubtful, it must be examined in the light of equity. 12.10.50.  and, further, that actual pleading is characterised by a greater energy and by the employment, almost verging on licence, of every artifice designed to please, since the minds of an uneducated audience require to be moved and led. On the other hand, the written speech which is published as a model of style must be polished and filed and brought into conformity with the accepted rules and standards of artistic construction, since it will come into the hands of learned men and its art will be judged by artists.
2. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 1.7.1, 12.3.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

1.7.1.  Having stated the rules which we must follow in speaking, I will now proceed to lay down the rules which must be observed when we write. Such rules are called orthography by the Greeks; let us style it the science of writing correctly. This science does not consist merely in the knowledge of the letters composing each syllable (such a study is beneath the dignity of a teacher of grammar), but, in my opinion, develops all its subtlety in connexion with doubtful points. 12.3.6.  And yet such a general would bear a very close resemblance to the advocate who leaves much of the detail that is necessary for success to the care of others, more especially in view of the fact that this, the most necessary element in the management of a case, is not as difficult as it may perhaps seem to outside observers. For every point of law, which is certain, is based either on written law or accepted custom: if, on the other hand, the point is doubtful, it must be examined in the light of equity.
3. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, 1.13.12, 1.22.20, 1.26.27, 1.30.33, 1.35.39, 1.36.41, 1.40.44, 2.6.7, 2.7.10, 2.9.14, 2.12.17, 2.37.55, 2.40.60, 3.37.56, 4.2.3, 4.3.4, 4.5.7, 4.7.11, 4.7.16, 4.7.21, 4.15.32, 4.28.61, 4.29.61 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)



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allegory see also typology, augustines understanding and use of Yates and Dupont, The Bible in Christian North Africa: Part I: Commencement to the Confessiones of Augustine (ca. 180 to 400 CE) (2020) 339
ammonius Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
aristotle, peripatetic tradition Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
augustine, de doctrina christiana Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
augustine of hippo, on allegory of scripture Yates and Dupont, The Bible in Christian North Africa: Part I: Commencement to the Confessiones of Augustine (ca. 180 to 400 CE) (2020) 339
commendation of tyconius Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
de doctrina christiana (augustine), on signification and disambiguation Yates and Dupont, The Bible in Christian North Africa: Part I: Commencement to the Confessiones of Augustine (ca. 180 to 400 CE) (2020) 339
exempla (rhetoric), rhetor Ployd, Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (2023) 120
external Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
hermeneutics Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
history Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
hope Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
keys Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
literal interpretation, augustines understanding of Yates and Dupont, The Bible in Christian North Africa: Part I: Commencement to the Confessiones of Augustine (ca. 180 to 400 CE) (2020) 339
logic see dialectic, λόγος Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
meaning Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
plato Ployd, Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (2023) 120
prologue Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
prudence/wisdom, statesman Ployd, Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (2023) 120
prudence/wisdom Ployd, Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (2023) 120
quintilian Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
regula, rule Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
rhetor, augustine Ployd, Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (2023) 120
rhetor, example' Ployd, Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric (2023) 120
sacred Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
scripture (nature of) Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56
stoicism Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
theophrastus Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
tyconius Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 216
understanding Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 56