Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 2 by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 - 100). Translated by H. E. Butler
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and was the first rhetorician to set up a genuine public school and to receive a salary from the State. He left behind him a treatise "On the causes of the decadence of Roman oratory" (De causis corruptae eloquentiae), some speeches and his magnum opus, the only one to survive to our days. His Institutio Oratoria, despite the fact that much of it is highly technical, has still much that is of interest to‑day, even for those who care little for the history of rhetoric. This second volume covers books 4 to 6. ( Leni)
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Leni wrote: ↑January 13th, 2020, 10:26 pm
Going back to this project many years after having recorded volume 1. Looking for a DPL.
Leni, I think this is the English translation you are recording? If so, I'd be happy to be DPL. I'm actually trying to bring my Latin back from the dead via some poems on youtube and am in the mood for some more classical Rome.
barbara2 wrote: ↑January 14th, 2020, 12:25 am
Leni, I think this is the English translation you are recording? If so, I'd be happy to be DPL. I'm actually trying to bring my Latin back from the dead via some poems on youtube and am in the mood for some more classical Rome.
Best,
Barbara
Yes, I am reading in English! Maybe in the future I will read it in Latin, even though there are plenty other more fun stuff to read in Latin I can think of
Thanks for the PLing offer, I don't expect to have the first section up before the weekend, but we shall see. As we are in the middle of summer, I can't record during the day, I need the air conditioning off to record, which is not always easy with the temperatures we are getting.
Leni wrote: ↑January 24th, 2020, 7:59 pm
Finally. section 1 is up. It started raining in the middle of the recording, and I stopped when it got harder. I hope it is not too disturbing.
Leni wrote: ↑January 24th, 2020, 7:59 pm
Finally. section 1 is up. It started raining in the middle of the recording, and I stopped when it got harder. I hope it is not too disturbing.
barbara2 wrote: ↑February 4th, 2020, 12:06 am
Section 3 is PL OK! I gave the time of the completed file, didn't I...sorry you had to search for the silence.
Maybe in the future I will read it in Latin, even though there are plenty other more fun stuff to read in Latin I can think of 
