XIV. 3. 16. +me ... huperemeron.+ Most of the editors insert +ou+ before
+phthenxaito+, thus ruining the sense of this fine passage. Longinus has
just said that a writer should always work with an eye to posterity. If
(he adds) he thinks of nothing but the taste and judgment of his
contemporaries, he will have no chance of "leaving something so written
that the world will not willingly let it die." A book, then, which is
+tou idiou biou kai chronou huperemeros+, is a book which is in advance
of its own times. Such were the poems of Lucretius, of Milton, of
Wordsworth.[3]
[Footnote 3: Compare the "Gefluegelte Worte" in the Vorspiel to
Goethe's _Faust_:
Was glaenzt, ist fuer den Augenblick geboren,
Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren. ]