Quintilian, whose authority is appealed to above, belonged to that age in which the exegesis of histories, poems, and other writings, was considered an essential part of grammar.

He therefore, as well as Diomedes, and other ancient writers, divided the grammarian's duties into two parts; the one including what is now called grammar, and the other the explanation of authors, and the stigmatizing of the unworthy.

Of the opinion referred to by Sanctius, it seems proper to make here an ampler citation.

It shall be attempted in English, though the paragraph is not an easy one to translate.

I understand the author to say, "Speakers, too, have their rules to observe; and writers, theirs.