[26] “Troics” Τρωικά, which Philostratus traces back to Hippias of Elis (I. 11 (36)), seem more like ἠθοποιίαι (ARP 68, 71, 187, and see Hermogenes below, section c). The Τρωικά of Dio Chrysostom are an exercise of another sort, the refutation of a classic (Boulanger, 249). It is discussed by Von Arnim, 166. Further on μελέτη see Boulanger, Chapter ii, section v; Méridier, Chapter i. [27] Introduction (8). [28] II. 9 (222). [29] I. 24 (102); II. 15 (244). Several of the sophists celebrated by Philostratus withdrew for a brief meditation after receiving the theme: Scopelian, I. 21 (82); Dionysius of Miletus and Isæus, I. 22 (90); Polemo, I. 25 (120). Apollonius of Naucratis, he complains, took too long. II, 19 (254). [30] ARP 95. [31] The sound ancient doctrine of _facilitas_ is most definitely formulated by Quintilian in his tenth book (see ARP 79). It is different not only in detail, but in its conception and method. [32] See _memoria_ in the index to ARP. [33] I. 25 (130). [34] I. 21 (80-82). [35] I. 8 (28). [36] II. 8 (212), 10 (226). [37] “Polemo was so arrogant that he conversed with cities as his inferiors, emperors as not his superiors, and the gods as his equals.” I. 25 (114). [38] See _amplification_ in the index to ARP. [39] E.g., see _chria_ in the index to ARP and in section c below. [40] Méridier, 41-44, and Chapter ix; Guignet, Chapter ix; Burgess, 201; Ameringer, 72, 78, 87; and the “Tempe” and “Memnon” of Dio Chrysostom. For restraint of this form of dilation by Augustine see Barry, 246; by Basil, Campbell, 128. For ἔκφρασις in the προγυμνάσματα see below, section c. Among his many sallies Lucian has inserted a sober warning: “Restraint in description of mountains, walls, rivers, and the like is very important; you must not give the impression that you are making a tasteless display of word-painting, and expatiating independently while the history takes care of itself.... You have the mighty Homer’s example in such a case.... If Parthenius, Euphorion, or Callimachus had been in his place, how many lines do you suppose it would have taken to get the water to Tantalus’ lips; how many more to set Ixion spinning?” _Quomodo historia_, 57; Fowler’s translation, II. 134. [41] Orat. x, quoted by Guignet, 188. Hermogenes uses much the same words. See below, section c. [42] E.g., [Hippodromus] “recited an encomium on fair-speaking, beginning with the peacock and showing how admiration makes him spread his plumage aloft.” II. 27 (288). For this peacock see also Méridier, 144. [43] ARP 168, 203, 218. [44] ARP 100. [45] The theme, which Lucian handles with biting conciseness, is at the opening of _Quomodo historia_.