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 CHAPTER VI. BYZANTINE CRITICISM. Photius 175 Detailed examination of the _Bibliotheca_ 177 Importance of its position as a body of critical judgment 183 Tzetzes 187 John the Siceliote 187 INTERCHAPTER I. 191 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOK II. LATIN CRITICISM. CHAPTER I. BEFORE QUINTILIAN—CICERO, HORACE, SENECA THE ELDER, VARRO.