Quint. Inst. 1.2.26 (original) (raw)

Philologus, 2019

Abstract

But, as F. H. Colson notes following G. L. Spalding, “ratio comparandi ... is not obvious”. Clearly, the idea must be that for the more advanced students aemulatio is preferable, while for the beginners imitatio is a more suitable tool. The word iucundior (together with facilior) would have been appropriate to express this opposition, but quam also requires some comparative, and so iucundior has to be connected with condiscipulorum quam praeceptoris, unless we assume some omission or ellipsis: i. e., the text appears to say, “beginners find imitation of their fellows more agreeable than imitation of their masters”, not “beginners find imitationmore agreeable than emulation (rivalry)”.

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