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The Text of Sulpicius Victor

Sulpicius Victor was the author of a short rhetorical treatise in Latin, written perhaps in the fourth century AD. It is entitled Institutiones oratoriae, and covers, for instance, the definition of rhetoric, the parts of a speech, and especially the so-called status system, which codified the issues raised in lawcourts and provided arguments appropriate to the different types of case. This little work has not been edited since Halm’s Rhetores Latini Minores (1863) (though a new edition is in preparation), and it is transmitted only in a printed book, published in Basle in 1521. This paper, originally published in 1979, discusses the text of a number of difficult passages, often suggesting conjectural changes.