Classical Studies: Essays On Ancient Literature And Art
Classical Studies: Essays On Ancient Literature And Art
Barnas Sears
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In the second place, the greatest pains were taken to multiply ornaments, so that nature and simplicity were almost wholly sacrificed. The studied sententiousness of ambitious writers led to obscurity, to quaint antitheses, to a play upon wards, and to a mixture of the prose and poetic styles. This decline of taste is clearly perceptible in Velleius Paterculus. Even such an independent writer as Tacitus, is not wholly firee from these faults. He was also fond of Wending incongruities in his dic...tion, and often brought imcongenial words together, for the sake of rendering his style pointed and energetic. Composition assumed the form of apothegms ; sentences were detached and abrupt. The language became adapted to writing compounds, and lost its free, and sonorous, and swelling periods Digitized by VjOOQIC HISTOKY OP THB LATIN LAKGUAGE. 307 Qaindlian describee die language of his time as ^ vitiated and corrupt; licentious in t!ie use of words; wantonly indulging in sententious puerilities; immoderately inflated; pompous, without meaning; brilliant with flowers just ready to &11 ; substituting boUness for sublimity, and the madness of disorder for freedom." The sixth and last period begins with the reign of Hadrian^ and terminates with the extinction of the language in die fifUi century.
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