Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, books 10-12, Book X, chapter 1, section 59

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[59] But until we have acquired that assured facility of which I spoke,¹ we must familiarise ourselves with the best writers only and must form our minds and develop an appropriate tone by reading that is deep rather than wide. Consequently, of the three writers of iambics² approved by the judgment of Aristarchus, Archilochus will be far the most useful for the formation of the facility in question.

1 x. i. 1.

2 i.e. invective. The other two writers are Simonides of Amorgos and Hipponax of Ephesus. Archilochus (fl. 686 B.C.).

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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