CHAPTER V.

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, PLUTARCH, LUCIAN, LONGINUS.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus 127

His works 128

The _Rhetoric_ 129

The _Composition_ 129

Censures and Commentaries on Orators, &c. 133

The minor works 134

The judgment of Thucydides 135

General critical value 136

Plutarch 137

The _Lives_ quite barren for us 138

The _Moralia_ at first sight promising 138

Examination of this promise 139

The “Education” 139

The Papers on “Reading” 140

The _Lives of the Orators_ 142

The _Malignity of Herodotus_ 142

The “Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander” 143

The _Roman Questions_ 144

The _Symposiacs_ 144

Lucian 146

The _How to write History_ 147

The _Lexiphanes_ 148

Other pieces: The _Prometheus Es_ 149

Works touching Rhetoric 150

His critical limitations 151

Longinus: the difficulties raised 152

“Sublimity” 153

Quality and contents of the treatise 154

Preliminary Retrospect 158

Detailed Criticism: The opening 159

The stricture on the _Orithyia_ 159

Frigidity 160

The “maidens in the eyes” 160

The canon “Quod semper” 161

The sources of sublimity 161

Longinus on Homer 162

On Sappho 163

“Amplification” 164

“Images” 165

The Figures 166

“Faultlessness” 168

Hyperboles 169

“Harmony” 169

The Conclusion 170

Modernity of the treatise 172

Or rather sempiternity 173

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