Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08567_Field_TCGG T332.txt

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     he declaimed in Greek and Latin, both for and against, in
     order to take his mind off his present troubles . . . (29)

Scholasticism, like Senecanism, was directly related to the oral
traditions of aphoristic learning.

*     When it is understood how entirely oral these thesis
defenses were, it is easier to see why the students of such arts
would need to have memories furnished with a large repertory
of aphorisms and sententiae.  This is a factor in the prevalence
of Senecan stylistic in later Roman times and for the long
association of Senecan style with “scientific method” both in
the middle ages and in the Renaissance. For Francis Bacon, as
much as for Abelard, “writing in aphorisms” rather than in
“methods” was the difference between keen analysis and mere
public persuasion.