Orators -- Greece; Oratory, Ancient; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism
[2] _Ibid._, ix. 502 _sqq._
[3] Herod., viii. 83.
[4] Thuc., i. 138.
[5] § 42.
[6] _Brutus_, § 28.
[7] _Themistocles_, ch. ii.
[8] _Ibid._, ch. xi.
[9] Ch. xxix.
[10] Plato, _Republic_, i. 330 A.
[11] Plato, _Alcibiades_, 1., 118 C.
[12] Plut., _Pericles_, ch. iv., who quotes Plato (comicus): σὺ γάρ, ὤς
φασι, Χείρων ἐξέθρεψας Περικλέα.
[13] p. 270 A, Jowett’s translation.
[14] Antiphon, _Tetral._ ii.
[15] 1. 2. 40.
[16] Plato, _l.c._
[17] Bothe, _Comic Frag._, i. 162. See also Aristophanes, _Acharn._ 530.
‘Then Pericles the Olympian in his wrath
Lightened and thundered and confounded Greece.’
[18] Thuc., ii. 65.
[19] Plut., _Pericles_, ch. vii.
[20] Arist., _Rhet._, iii. 10. 7 D.
[21] Thuc., i. 115-117; Arist., _Rhet._, iii. 4. 3.
[22] Arist., _ibid._
[23] Herod., vii. 162; Arist., _Rhet._, i. 7. 34. In a later age the
orator Demades borrowed it. (Athenaeus, iii. 99 D.)
[24] Plato, _Protag._, 317 C.
[25] Plato, _Protag._, 337 A-C, where Plato parodies his style.
[26] Cicero, _Brutus_, § 46.
[27] Arist., _Rhet._, ii. 24. 11.
[28] _Soph. Elench._, 183 p. 28 _sqq._
[29] _Vide infra_, p. 36.
[30] Quoted by Plato, _Phaedrus_, 273 B.C.
[31] Schol. on Hermogenes; also Sext. Empir. _adv. Mathem._, ii. 96.
[32] κακοῦ Κόρακος κακὰ ὠά.
[33] _Soph. Elench._, 184 a. 1.
[34] Cf. Plato, _Gorgias_, 453 A; _Phaedr._, 259 E.
[35] Isocr., _Antid._, § 155.
[36] If it is true, as Philostratus, _Ep._ ix. says, that Aspasia
‘sharpened the tongue of Pericles’ in Gorgian style, he must have visited
Athens in a private capacity at an earlier date, unless his _Olympiac_
and other speeches were widely circulated and read.
[37] Πολλαχοῦ τῶν ἰάμβων γοργιάζει, Philost., _Lives of the Sophists_,
ix. 493.
[38] Plato, _Meno_, 70 B; Philost., _Epist._ ix. 364.
[39] περὶ φύσεως ἢ τοῦ μὴ ὄντος, Sext. Emp., vii. 65. Cicero (_Brut._, §
46) mentions also a collection of _communes loci_ made for instructional
purposes.
[40] Arist., _Rhet._, iii. 14. 12.
[41] _Symposium_, 194 E, _sqq._, 197 D; the latter contains some
excellent examples: πραύτητα μὲν πορίζων, ἀγριότητα δ’ ἐξορίζων·
φιλόδωρος εὐμενείας, ἄδωρος δυσμενείας, etc.
[42] Introduction to the Teubner edition of Antiphon (1908), p. xxviii.
[43] Ps.-Plut., _Lives of the Orators_, Antiphon, § 9.
[44] Thuc., viii. 68.
[45] _Eth. Eudem._, iii. 1232 b. 7.
[46] The Sophistical element is very prominent, especially in the
tetralogies. Like Tisias he makes great use of arguments from probability.
[47] _De comp. verborum_, ch. 22.
[48] Such words are, for instance, ἀνατροπεύς; μήνιμα and ἀλιτήριος,
separately, as μήνιμα ἀκέσασθαι, δεινοὺς ἀλιτηρίους ἕξομεν, or together,
μήνιμα τῶν ἀλιτηρίων προστρίψομαι; θεία κηλίς, γεγωνεῖν, ὀπτήρ,
ἀείμνηστος.
[49] Rare but not poetical words are, _e.g._ ὑπῆρκτο, χωροφιλεῖν,
καταδοχθείς, ἐπίδοξος, and, from lost Speeches, μοιρολογχεῖν,
τριβωνεύεσθαι, ἀστοργία, and many others quoted by lexicographers for
their peculiarity.
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