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QUINTILIAN X 1, 93 ONCE MORE *) BY C. A. VAN ROOY Satura quidem tota nostra est. In 1922 Mr. W. Rennie opposed the traditional interpretation of this passage: "I do not think that Quintilian had the notion of originality in his mind at all ......... Quintilian is thinking of final achievement. He pits the Roman writers against the Greeks throughout. 'In elegy we challenge the Greeks-"non historia cesserit Graecis"-one need not hesitate to match Sallust against Thucydides'. 'Satira (sic) tota nostra est' is in the same strain. The Roman writers so far outstripped their Greek originals that they are first, the Greeks nowhere. In the contest the element of Satire is entirely in our favour, on our side. Quintilian writes 'nostra', not 'nostras' ......" CR. XXXVI, 21). Notwithstanding the objections that have been brought forward against this interpretation of the passage 1), it has exercised con- siderable influence on modern authors. In 1924 Campbell wrote that "Mr. Rennie .... makes out a strong case" (Horace, A New Interpretation, London 1924, 53 n. I) ; in 1934 Atkins, with reference to Rennie, speaks of Quintilian's claim "that in satire as a whole the Romans were unrivalled" (Literary Criticism in
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1955
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