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Bonner adds (p. 3):
It is in the Rhetorica of Cicero, the Institutio Oratoria of
Quintilian, and the later Greek and Roman rhetoricians,
that specific examples of subjects of theses are found.
They represent the major problems of the world and its
meaning, of human life and conduct, which the Greeks
debated through the ages, from the cities of Asia Minor
to the groves of the Academy, from the Garden and the
Porch to the villas of Italy and the colonnades of Rome.
The reason for bringing up the character of scholastic
form is that from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries this
kind of highly oral activity broke away from the grammatica
that formed the base of monastic and later humanist
procedures. For grammatica is concerned very much with