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Chapter 7 - Letters to Lupercus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Christopher Whitton
Christopher Whitton
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Lupercus is addressed twice in Pliny’s collection, receiving two very different pieces of Quintilianic imitation. Epistles 9.26 is a partner-letter to Epistles 1.20 (subject of Chapter 6), arguing for audacity in oratory. It opens with another window imitation (Institutio 2 and De oratore), and proceeds – I suggest – to some especially free imitatio of Institutio 12.10, completing in quite different fashion the work begun in Epistles 1.20. Epistles 2.5 is a partner to Epistles 7.9 (subject of Chapter 8), and behaves differently again. A relatively short letter, it features dense, eclectic and wide-ranging imitation of the Institutio. More than that: with two more window imitations (Cicero and Seneca the Elder), I argue, the letter miniaturises Quintilian’s first book and styles itself as a belated proem to Pliny’s collection.

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Pliny the YoungerEpistlesLettersQuintilianInstitutio oratoriaintertextualityimitationgrandeuraudacityCicerominiaturisationLupercus
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The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
Pliny's <I>Epistles</I>/Quintilian in Brief
 , pp. 249 - 271
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Letters to Lupercus
  • Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
  • Online publication: 10 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688550.007
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  • Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688550.007
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  • Letters to Lupercus
  • Christopher Whitton, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
  • Online publication: 10 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688550.007
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