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continues from previous page: ...defend that "Ego amat" I loves is as convenient a form of speech as "Ego amo" I love, and that a public counsel was needed to suppress such stubbornness. Later, similar elegances appeared in our age. Therefore, Rhetoric followed Grammar, concerning which there was a battle against Cicero and Quintilian of a more serious and long-lasting nature. For when he interpreted the eloquence of Cicero with a certain great eagerness among his students, and with much greater pleasure and joy for himself, he very often complained that the Rhetorical art of Cicero differed so much from the splendor and magnificence of Ciceronian oratory that at first there was a suspicion that it had been invented for that art and transferred from the dictations of scholastic masters. When he had later discovered this with more certain arguments, that bipartite effort of his—the apodictic demonstrative for Rhetoric, and the elenctic refutational against the rhetoricians—shone forth. Now, Audomarus Taleus had taken up that part of the compendious method and path, a companion to Ramus in the sharing of late-night studies from the beginning of his age, a brother in love or rather in devotion. Therefore, that technologia systematic arrangement of arts was Audomarus Taleus’s; however, the elenctica was Ramus’s. They were treated more copiously in several books, from which the Quæstiones Brutinæ Brutin Questions and the Distinctiones in Quintilianum Distinctions on Quintilian later emerged. Logic was subsequently called into the same wrestling ring, than which he could understand nothing higher or more sublime in the humanities, to which a spirit inflamed by the desire for knowledge might want or be able to ascend. If he saw anything more sharply in establishing grammar, rhetoric, or logic itself, or against the opinions of grammarians, rhetoricians, and logicians, it was the light of Logic. If he benefited youth by interpreting the counsels of good authors and explaining the various praises of prudence, it was the light of Logic. If he achieved any reputation for talent among minds endowed with liberal and ingenuous learning, he achieved it by the grace and recommendation of the logical light. Indeed, he always admired the ornaments of Rhetoric, but he embraced Logic—both in foresight and constancy of judgment—with an incredible love, or rather, ardor. What more is there to say? If he could choose for his dearest disciples a discipline most noble and liberal in his own judgment from the Muses themselves, the patrons of the arts, he professed that he would choose Logic for them. Therefore, those exoterici outer ones of liberal discipline in Gramma...
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