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Longinus consider so essential for good oratory, was fast
disappearing from Roman public life.
And so oratory betook itself to the safer arena of
the schools, where a man might air his Republicanism
without fear of consequences, and where one might be
recompensed for the loss of political prestige by the
plaudits of one’s fellow-citizens. The term scholastica
came into vogue—a ‘school-oration’ as opposed to the
genuine public speech, and the exponents of these
display-speeches became known as ‘schoolmen’—
scholastici .
The break between political oratory and scholastic or
academic disputation, then, took place long before the Middle
Ages. Bonner refers to the Controversiae of the elder Seneca