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of the orator. That poetry or grammatica is the handmaid of
rhetoric is a commonplace in Quintilian, Augustine, and
throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. (26)
The Ciceronian concept of doctus orator and of eloquence
as a kind of wisdom, as knowledge in action, became the basic
charter of medieval education thanks to Augustine. But
Augustine, an eminent professor of rhetoric, did not deliver this
Ciceronian charter to the Middle Ages as a speech program for
pulpit oratory. As Marrou states the matter in his great study,
(27) “la culture chrétienne, augustinienne, emprunte
moins à la technique du rheteur qu’à celle du grammairien.” In a
word, ancient grammatica and philologia were encyclopedic,
linguistically oriented programs which Augustine took over for
the Doctrina Christiana. It was not so much preaching as the
understanding and expounding of the sacra pagina for which