cornificius's

Updated: May 23, 2025

First, the anonymous character of the work; and, secondly, the frequent imitations of it by Cicero in his De Inventione, an incomplete essay written when he was a young man. Who the author was is not agreed; the balance of probability is in favour of CORNIFICIUS. Kayser points out several coincidences between Cornificius's views, as quoted by Quintilian, and the rhetorical treatise to Herennius.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius