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There are also several undated specimens of the type frequently so labeled. It is clear that Cheke thought the Chreia an excellent preparation for the oration.
Edward would have received his instruction on the Chreia from Aphthonius, whose fourteen minor forms followed epistles, and pre-pared for the oration. As we have seen, Edward was writing a Chreia, the third of the fourteen minor forms in Aphthonius, by April 22, 1548, and did not reach the oration formally till June 23, 1549. So Edward came to his Aphthonius well along in his fourth year of school, and to his formal orations at the very end of his fifth year. This was about grammar school progress, but perhaps a bit faster. For the type, the current Latin translation of Aphthonius by Agricola-Cataneus defined it thus,
Chreia est commemoratio breuis, alicuius personae factum, vel dictum apte referens.
Aphthonius explains that the Chreia was to be treated under six heads, which are given in this translation as Laudativus, Paraphrasticus, Causa, Contrarium, Parabola, Exemplum, Testimonium Yeterum, Brevis epilogus. The Latin translation made by Cataneus alone had given the terms as Laudatiaus, ab exposition, Causa, Contrarium, Comparatio, Exemplum, Testimonium Antiquorum, Epilogus brevis. The illustration given by Aphthonius is, Isocrates doctrinae radicem amaram esse dicebat, fructus nerd dukes, in which, in this translation, the six heads are labeled in the margin. So Edward's parallel Chreia is, Isocrates. Oportet Regem Regnare (Inquit) Cum Mansuetudine Et Clementia, and he too labels his six heads in order in the margin, Laus, irapathpagcs, Causa, Contrarium, Similitudo, Exemplum, Testimonium, E7riXo'yos. r Edward has preferred the Greek form of two headings, this being the form retained within the text of the translation, and has given Similitudo instead of Parabola, but that is the word used in the side Iabel to the Chreia of Isocrates, upon which Edward was patterning. He has regularly used these labels for each Chreia. 1believe it is clear that Edward was using the Agricola-Cataneus trans-
Nichols, Edward, p. 93. From $.M.; MS Addit. 4724, which I have examined. 7 Nichols, Edward, pp. 117-124.
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