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Cf. p.  below). In addition to the provision or suggestion of some actual examples of conversational language or the simple rhetorical style, various authors note qualities of conversational language or of the style of oratory that comes close to it.  above) the four varieties into which the Rhetorica ad Herennium divides the voice quality sermo: dignitas, demonstratio, narratio and iocatio. These differ from one another in pace and in the use of pauses as well as in other respects that we would consider to belong to ‘tone of voice’ (Rhet.

See n.  Roman authors of extant Artes grammaticae pay little attention to the spoken language as such. The purpose of grammar was the description of the parts of speech and their properties, as a preliminary step to the correct study and interpretation of poetry. Comments on linguistic correctness and incorrectness occur in the sections devoted to vitia orationis (or ‘linguistic errors’) (Dammer : –), but their approach is prescriptive and classificatory, and not subtle enough to contemplate the possibility of register variation and speaker’s choice.

We are again indebted to Gregory Hutchinson for this comparison. Cf. also Quintilian’s reference to Cicero’s ‘concealed art’ at Inst. , quoted below, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Lysias  (¾mo©wv d• to±v «diÛtaiv dial”gesqai dokän ple±ston Âson «diÛtou diaf”rei ‘and yet although he seems to converse like ordinary people, he could not be more different from an ordinary person’). Roman authors on colloquial language  Comparison between the example of the simple style and that of its perversion may thus suggest, on the one hand, variation within conversational language, with the ‘good’ simple style being comparatively free from forms that may belong to the wrong sort of conversation.

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