Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, chapter 1, section 24

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[24] One could only wish that he had shown greater restraint in his poems, which those who love him not are never weary of criticising. I refer to passages such as:¹

“Let arms before the peaceful toga yield,
Laurels to eloquence resign the field,
”

or

“O happy Rome, born in my consulship!”

together with that “Jupiter, by whom he is summoned to the assembly of the gods,” and the “Minerva that taught him her accomplishments”; extravagances which he permitted himself in imitation of certain precedents in Greek literature.

1 From the poem on his consulship.

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

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