[59]
But I have
already mentioned1 what his opinion was about this
particular work. The Rhetorica are simply a collection of school-notes on rhetoric which he worked
up into this treatise while quite a young man. Such
faults as they possess are due to his instructor. In the
present instance he may have been influenced by the
fact that the first examples given by Hermagoras of
this species are drawn from legal questions, or by the
fact that the Greeks call interpreters of the law
πραγματικοί.
1 de Inv. i. xi. 14.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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