On the Sublime by 1st cent. Longinus
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in a separate work).
(iii.) Figures of Speech (cc. xvi-xxix). _a._ The Figure of Adjuration (c. xvi). The Art to conceal Art (c. xvii). _b._ Rhetorical Question (c. xviii). _c._ Asyndeton (c. xix-xxi). _d._ Hyperbaton (c. xxii). _e._ Changes of Number, Person, Tense, etc. (cc. xxiii-xxvii). _f._ Periphrasis (cc. xxviii, xxix). (iv.) Graceful Expression (cc. xxx-xxxii and xxxvii, xxxviii). _a._ Choice of Words (c. xxx). _b._ Ornaments of Style (cc. xxxi, xxxii and xxxvii, xxxviii). (α) On the use of Familiar Words (c. xxxi). (β) Metaphors; accumulated; extract from the _Timaeus_; abuse of Metaphors; certain tasteless conceits blamed in Plato (c. xxxii). [Hence arises a digression (cc. xxxiii-xxxvi) on the spirit in which we should judge of the faults of great authors. |
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