Karl Otfried Müller, John William Donaldson, Sir George Cornewall Lewis
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Jovem aiunt philosophi, si Qrseoe loquatur, sic loquL' Dionys. Hal. de adm. vi die. in Dem, zxiii. p. 1024, Beiske: ifdrf d4 rufw IfKOwra iyd \eY6rrup, us el xal xa/»d Oedit BiaXiyeTeu Oebs [L Zebi] i) Cn TLXdnav, * De adm. vi Dem. p. 1043: UXdrtap ydp imuf b ravra ypd^jxar b$ el fi^ Kal rb wpweia oCererai r9p X^^eoit, irepl ye tQp bevrepelup voXbp dyQpa wap4^ei rott Stafuk- * Id. ibid. pp. 958, 1083. ' Id. ibid. p. 968. ' KaTOffKetrfl, %.e. the apparatus of words as distinguished from their ar...rangement, their capia verhorum in &ct; see above, chapter XXIV. § 3, note. ^ De Compot. Verborum, p. 133. H Digitized by VjOOQIC 98 PLATO. chiefly because the former departs occasionally from that judicious choice of words by which Demosthenes is dis- tinguished. ^ Plato/ he says^* * was most admirable in per- ceiving the harmony and rhythm of style^ and if he had been as excellent in the selection as he was in the composition of his words^ he might have outstripped Demosthenes^ or made his superiority doubtful; as it is, he commits some faults in his choice of expressions, especially when he aims at a lofty, elegant, and elaborate (cyKaraajccvoi^) phraseology/ In comparing these two masters of Greek eloquence, Dionysius has given us a very felicitous analogy.
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