[25] Butcher, _op. cit._ p. 392.

[26] _Poetics_, XVII.

[27] VI, 18.

[28] Longinus, _On the Sublime_, trans, by A. O. p.r.i.c.kard (Oxford, 1906) I and x.x.xIII. The treatise has been variously ascribed to the first and fourth centuries. A valuable edition of the text accompanied by translation and critical apparatus, was published by W. Rhys Roberts, Cambridge University Press.

[29] _Ibid._, VIII.

[30] _Ibid._, X.

[31] _Ibid._, XII.

[32] _Ibid._, XV. This is almost exactly Aristotle's phrase in the _Rhetoric_.

[33] _Ibid._

[34] _Ibid_, X.

[35] _De audiendis poetis_, VII, VIII.

[36] III.

[37] _Rhetoric_ (J. E. C. Welldon's trans., London, 1886), I, ii.

[38] _Rhetoric_, I, i.

[39] _Ibid._, I, i.

[40] Wilkin's ed. of Cic. _De oratore_, introd. p. 56.

[41] Cope, _Introduction to the Rhetoric of Aristotle_ (London, 1867), p.

149.

[42] _Ad Herennium_, I, 2. Published in the _Opera Rhetorica_ of Cicero, edited by W. Friedrich for Teubner (Leipzig, 1893), Vol. 1.

[43] _De oratore_, I, 138.

[44] _De inst.i.tutione oratoria_, II, xv, 38.

[45] _Ibid._, XI, i, 9-11. The "vir bonus dicendi peritus" is from Cato.

[46] _Gorgias_, St. 453.

[47] _Loci cit._

[48] I, v.

[49] I, 213.

[50] _Op. cit._, I, 64.

[51] _De inst. orat._, II, xxi, 4.

[52] _Rhet._, I, ix.

[53] _De inst. orat._, III, iv, 6.

[54] _Ibid._, X, i, 28.

[55] ??a????, Rhet. III, xii.

[56] _Orator_, 37-38.

[57] _Rhet._, I, ix.

[58] _Ad Herennium_, I, 2; Cicero, _De inventione_, I, vii. _De oratore_, I, 142; Quintilian, _De inst. orat._, III, iii, i.

[59] Aristotle, _Rhetoric_, III, xiii-xix; Cicero, _Part.i.t. orat._, 15.

[60] See above, pp. 13-14.

[61] Cicero, _De oratore_, I. 143; Quint., _De inst. orat._, III, ix.

[62] I, 4. Cicero, also, _De invent._, I, xiv.

[63] _Opera omnia_ (1622), p. 1028.

[64] _De nuptiis_, 544-560.

[65] _The Arte of Rhet._, p. 7.

[66] _De inst. orat._, VIII, i, I

[67] _De inst. orat._, VIII, vi, I ff.

[68] _Rhetoric_, III, ii.

[69] _Ibid._, III, xi.

[70] _Enjoyment of Poetry_, pp. 76-78. The best cla.s.sical treatments of style are to be found in Arist. _Rhet._, III; Cic., _Orat._; Quint., _De inst. orat._, VIII, x; Dionysius of Halicarna.s.sus, _De comp. verb._; and Demetrius, _De elocutione_.

[71] Sec. 54.

[72] _Commentarioum Rhetoricorum libri_ IV, I, i, 3, in his _Opera_, III.

(Amsterdam, 1697).

[73] VI, 1.