21 Cicero ar. Lact. Inst. theol., Ill, 14.

22 Lact. Inst. theol., Ill, 14.

23 Cic., De orat., Ill, 21, 79-80, trans. by F. A. Petrovsky (see: Cicero 1972, pp. 220-221).

24 It is precisely removed, although it is known and ordained; this is the relationship between Petrarch's two epistles to Cicero.

25 The author had occasion to talk about this in his article "Ancient Greek Poetics and World Literature" (see Nast, ed., pp. 146-157).

26 Cf. our remarks on this matter: Averintsev 1979, pp. 41-81, especially pp. 62-65.

27 Aristotle's "rhetoric" begins with the actual equating of rhetoric with what Aristotle calls dialectics (Rhet. I, I, 1354a). On the rhetorical studies of the Neoplatonists, see: Kustas 1973, pp. 6-12, 19-26, 86-95, 174-179 a.o.

28 Plut. Pericl., 2, I, p. 153a.

29 Luc. Somnium, 8, 11.

30 Petrarca. Op. cit., p. 112.

31 It is not only and not so much the accidental fact that Vitruvius' book found itself in the exceptional position of the only textbook on architecture that has survived from antiquity and has been sanctified by the authority of antiquity. Such a role belonged to it already during the so-called Carolingian Renaissance, when it was diligently studied; but it was only thanks to the Renaissance that Vitruvius's book for Baroque and Classicism moved from the status of a practical manual to the status of a cultural symbol, a spiritual value, the significance of which is not limited by professional frameworks.

32 Cf. Averintsev 1973, p. 167 and note. 33 on p. 255.

33 Hist. Nat., XXXV, 36, 1.

34 Hist. Nat., XXXV, 36, 2. 86 Hist. Nat, XXXV, 36, 3.