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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 1 (of 3), Classical and mediæval criticism

Book 3 — INDEX.

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Academics, the, 66.

Acatalepsy (the Pyrrhonist doctrine of agnosticism), 64.

Accius or Attius, L. (b. 170 A.C., d. (?)), tragic poet, 326.

Achilleid, the, 269, 410.

Achilles Tatius (fl. c. 500 A.D. (?)), novelist, 119 note, 180.

Acyrologia = “improper or inexact expression,” 338.

Addison, 83, 118.

Ad Herennium, 213, 217.

Adrianus (d. c. 192 A.D.), rhetorician, 95.

Æneid, the, see Virgil.

Ærumna, objections to, 251 and note, 297.

Æschylus (b. 525 A.C., d. 456), tragic poet, 22, 39, 112, 133, 155, 206, 308.

Æsopus, (? ?), fabulist, 409.

Æthiopica, the, 180, 181.

Afranius, L. (fl. c. 100 A.C.), Roman comic poet, 311.

Africa, Petrarch’s, 462.

African euphuism, 362.

Against the Dogmatists, 64-66.

Agave, the, of Statius, 255 and note.

Agon, the contentious or argumentative part of a speech, 101.

C (12th cent.), moralist, &c., in verse, 411, 414 note, 466.

Albinovanus Pedo (fl. c. 1 A.D.), poet, 310, 311.

Albinus, see Alcuin.

Albucius, Silius (fl. 1st cent. A.C.), declaimer, &c., 238, 360, 432.

Alcæus (fl. c. 600), poet, 133 note.

Alcidamas (fl. end of 5th cent. A.C.), rhetorician, 45.

Alcuin? (or Albinus?) (b. c. 735, d. 804), theologian and rhetorician, 375-377.

Aldhelm (b. c. 650 A.D., d. 709), poet and divine, 400 note.

Alexander (2nd cent. P.C.?), rhetorician, 102, 105.

Allegory, its appearances in, and influences on, Criticism, 10-12, 67-70, 300, 301, 392 sq.

ἁμαρτία. (1) The peculiar tragic “sin” on which Aristotle’s idea of tragedy partly hinges, 34 sq. (2) “Fault” generally in the critical sense; but in this ἁμαρτία is perhaps commoner, 44 sq., 168, 285, Bk. II. chap. iii. passim.

Amblysia, “blunting” or “toning down,” 338.

Ammæus (correspondent of Dion. Hal.), 129 sq.

Amplification (auxesis), rhetorical term, sometimes for “raising,” sometimes for “varying,” the subject, 164.

Ampulla, 271 and note.

Anabasis, the, 309, 318.

Anacreon (c. 560 A.C.–480), poet. Criticism of him in the Anthology, 82.

ἀναίσχυντος (“anæschyntos”), “the shameless one.” One of the artificial distinctions of case in which the plaintiff seems impudent, 347.

ἀνασκευή, refutation, one of the subject divisions of the Progymnasmata, 92 sq.

488Anatomy of Melancholy, the, 144 note, 194.

Anaxagoras (fl. 5th cent. A.C.), philosopher, criticised Homer? 11.

Anaximenes of Lampsacus (fl. 4th cent. A.C., with Alexander, 334), historian and rhetorician, 17 note.

ἀντέγκλημα. Acceptance and vindication: “justification,” 98.

Anthology, the Greek, literary epigrams of, 81-86, 147.

—— the Latin, 344, 345.

Anti-Claudianus, 410, 414 note.

Antimachus of Colophon (or Claros) (fl. c. 400 A.C.), poet, 20 note, 85 note, 133, 307 note.

Antimetathesis = “putting the reader in the place of an actor or spectator by vivid narrative,” 157.

Antiphanes (fl. 4th cent. A.C.), middle comic poet, 25 and note.

Antoninus Pius (Emperor, 138-161 A.D.), 272, 273.

Aper, M. (character in Dial. de Clar. Orat.), 280 sq.

ἀφελής, simple, plain, 99 sq.

Aphthonius (fl. c. 315 A.D.), rhetorician, 90, 92, 93.

Apollinaris, see Sidonius.

Apollodorus of Pergamus (fl. 1st cent. A.C.), rhetorician, 302.

Apollonius, Life of, 119-121, 388.

Apollonius Rhodius (fl. c. 200 A.C.), 307, 318, 338.

Apology, the Platonic, 237.

Apparebit repentina (hymn), 404.

Appian (fl. 2nd cent. P.C.), historian, 178.

Apsines (fl. c. 235? or c. 300?), rhetorician, 105.

Apuleius (fl. 2nd cent. P.C., b. c. 130), novelist, &c., 151, 321, 352, 353, and note.

Aquila Romanus, rhetorician, 346.

Aquilius Regulus, M. (fl. c. 100), orator, 272 note, 357.

ἀρχαῖοι, οἱ. In Arist., &c., “the early philosophers”; in Photius, &c., “the classics” generally. Uncertain when this latter use came in. MSS. of Dion. Halicarn. have in the same pass, some this word and some παλαιοί, 186.

Archaism, 45.

Architrenius, 410 and note, 414.

Arellius Fuscus (fl. just before C.), rhetorician, 236.

Argentarius, Marcus (?), epigrammatist and declaimer, 86, 234.

Aristarchus (fl. c. 150 A.C.), critic and grammarian, 74-76, 85, 214.

Aristides of Smyrna (P. Aelius A. Theodorus) (b. 117 A.D., d. c. 180), rhetorician, 82(?), 105(?), 109, 113-116, 183.

—— the Rhetoric of, 105.

Aristophanes (b. c. 444 A.C., d. c. 380; Plays, 425-388; Frogs, 405), comic poet, 9, 17, 21-23, 30, 82, 146, 147, 294.

—— and Menander, Plutarch’s comparison of, 143.

—— of Byzantium (fl. c. 264), critic, 74-76.

—— (4th cent. A.C.) (client of Libanius), 122.

—— the Scholiasts on, 76.

Aristotle (b. 384 A.C., d. 322), philosopher, Bk. I. chap. iii. (for headings see Contents), 5, 83 note, 130, 136, 155, 166, 173, 185, 192, 193, 224, 226, 241, 290, 294, 295, 306, 309, 444.

Armstrong, 167, 296.

Arnold, Matthew (b. 1822, d. 1888), poet and critic, 23, 55, 62 note, 146, 320.

Arrian (fl. 2nd cent. P.C.), historian, 178, 179, 270.

Arruntius, L., name of two persons, father and son, one consul 22 A.C., the other 6 A.D. Either might be the person referred to by Seneca, 238.

Ars Poetica of Horace, 221 sq.

Arthur and Arthurian Legend, 423 note and sq., 475, 483.

Ascham, Roger, 213, 483.

Ataraxia (the Epicurean calm), 63, 64.

Athenæus (fl. c. 230 A.D.), 144, 145 note, 186.

Athetesis = “marking as spurious,” 80.

Atticism, 315.

Atticus, Herodes (Tib. Claudius) (b. c. 104 A.D., d. 180), rhetorician, 323.

—— T. Pomponius (b. 109 A.C., d. 32), friend of Cicero, 214.

489Attius, see Accius.

Atys or Attis, the, 305.

Aucassin et Nicolette, 475.

Augustinus, Aurelius (St Augustine) (b. 354 A.D., d. 430), rhetorician, theologian, and bishop, 349, 377-380, 401, 483.

Augustus, the Emperor (b. 63 A.C., d. 14 A.D.), his epigram on Fulvia and Martial’s praise of it, 258.

Aulic, the, in language, 425 sq.

Aungervyle, see Bury.

Aurelius, Marcus (M. A. Antoninus) (b. 121 A.D., Roman Emperor, 161, d. 180), 62 and note, 246 note.

Ausonius, D. Magnus (b. c. 310 A.D., consul 379, d. c. 390), poet, professor, and prefect, 342, 343, 387.

Avienus or Avianus (fl. c. 300 A.D. ?), fabulist, 409.

Bacchylides (fl. c. 470 A.C.), poet, 168.

Bailiff of Love, the (Le Bailli d’Amour), 455 and note.

Bassus, see Cæsius Bassus and Saleius Bassus.

Bede, the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), presbyter, historian, &c., 374, 375, 402-405.

Bentley (?) on Philostratus, 119.

Blair, Dr Hugh, vi, 154 note.

“Blunder,” Aristides’ defence of his, 115, 116.

Boccaccio, Giovanni (b. 1313, d. 1375), poet, tale-teller, and scholar, 417, 457-464.

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (b. c. 470 A.D., d. c. 524), statesman and philosopher, 390, 406, 462.

Bolognese dialect, 424, 425.

Bossuet, 199.

Boswell, 271 note.

Broad Stone of Honour, the, 372.

Browne, Sir T., quoted, 118.

rowning, Mr, 226, 424 note.

Brunellus, 414 note.

Brutus, the, 218, 219.

Burke, his “Amplification,” 164, 165.

Burton, R., 119; the Anatomy, 144 note.

Bury, Richard of, 455, 456 and note.

Butcher, Prof. S. H., his Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, 31 note and Bk. I. ch. iii. notes, passim.

Butler, S., on Rhetoric, 43.

Cacozelon = “affected excess,” 297 and note.

Cæcilius Statius (d. 168 A.C.), comic poet, 213 note, 324.

Cæcilius (fl. c. 1 A.D. ?), rhetorician, 73, 138, 153 sq., 186 note, 302.

Cælius, M. C. Rufus (d. 48 A.C.), orator, 312.

Cæsar, C. Julius (b. 100 A.C., d. 44), 312.

Cæsius Bassus (d. 78 A.D.), poet, 253 note.

Callimachus (fl. 240-260 A.C.), poet, 273.

Calvus, C. Licinius Macco (b. 82 A.C., d. c. 46), poet and orator, 312.

“Cambridge the Everything,” 271 and note.

Campbell, George (18th cent. divine and rhetorical writer), Preface, p. vi; 295 note.

Can Grande, Letter to, 441, 442.

“Canons” of writers, 213 note.

Canzone, the, Bk. III. ch. ii. passim.

Capella, see Martianus C.

Cardinal, the, in language, 425 sq.

Carmina Burana, 377 note, 405 note.

Cassiodorus, Magnus Aurelius (b. c. 468 A.D., d. c. 568), statesman and polyhistor, 349, 391, 406.

Cassius Severus (b. c. 50 A.C., d. 33 A.D.), orator and lampooner, 236.

Castor (fl. c. 150 A.C.), rhetorician, 102.

Cato, Dionysius (fl. 2nd cent. P.C. ?), moralist, 409.

Catullus, Valerius (b. c. 87 A.C., d. c. 47), poet, 212, 258, 265, 267, 273, 294, 311, 317, 356.

Causeret, M. C., 220.

Caxton, 464, 465.

Celtic Rhetoric, Early, 467 note.

“Centimeters,” 404 and note.

Cento, the, 343, 401.

Châtillon, Gautier of (12th cent.), poet, 410.

Chaucer, Geoffrey (b. 1340 ?, d. 1400), poet, 5, 55, 390 note, 450-452, 470.

Chirius Fortuniatianus, see Curius F.

490Chœrilus of Samos (fl. 5th cent. A.C.), epic poet, 20.

Choragia, 25 note.

Chorus, the, Dion Chrysostom, 112-113.

Chreia (χρεία), the Rhetorical “use” or maxim, often of a figurative character, 91 sq.

Chrysostom, Dion, see Dion Chrysostom.

Cicero, M. Tullius (b. 106 A.C., d. 43 A.C.), orator, 5, 165, 186, 212, 213-221, 229 note, 270, 289, 294, 302, 312, 314, 333, 384.

Cinna, C. Helvius (d. 44 A.C.), poet, 264, 265.

Claudian—Claudius Claudianus (fl. c. 400 A.D.), poet, 83, 383, 393, 409 sq.

—— (friend of Sidonius), 383.

Cléomadès, 455 and note.

Cocheris, M., 414 note, 455 note.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), “logician, metaphysician, bard,” and critic, 5, 23, 118, 174, 419 note, 436, 438.

Comedy, Greek, Criticism of Literature in, 21-26; Aristotle on, 32; Aristides on, 115, 116; general ancient views of, 294.

Comento, Boccaccio’s, on Dante, 458 sq.

“Commatic,” 386 and note.

Commedia, Divina, La, Bk. III. ch. ii., passim.

Commodianus (3rd cent. P.C.?), bishop and versifier, 364 and #note:f454.

“Common” syllables, Martial on, 263 and note.

Comparison in relation to criticism, 241.

Composition in relation to Rhetoric and Criticism, 129 sq., 304.

Confessions, the, of St Augustine, 378-380.

Consolatio Philosophiæ, 390.

Constructionis Elatio, 428 sq.

Contention of Phyllis and Flora, the, 377 and note.

Controversies, the, of Seneca the Elder, 334 sq.

Convito, Dante’s, 417, 441-443.

Cope, E.M., his ed. of the Rhetoric, 40 note, 46.

Corax (fl. 5th cent. A.C.), traditional founder of rhetorical teaching, 16, 17 note.

Corbinelli, Jacopo, 417.

Corneille, Pierre (b. 1606, d. 1684), 5.

Cornelius Severus (fl. c. 1 A.D.), poet, 235, 310 and note.

Courthope, Mr W. J., 457 note, 462 note.

Cowper, 460.

Crabbe, 166.

Crates of Mallos (fl. 2nd cent. A.C.), grammarian and critic, 74, 85.

Critic, Quintilian’s sketch of the duty of the, 292, 293.

“Cross-poems,” 396 sq.

Crotchet Castle, 372.

Ctesias (fl. c. 480 A.C.), physician and historian, 178.

Cumberland on Philostratus, 119.

Curial, the, in language, 425 sq.

Curiatius Maternus (fl. c. 100?), 280 sq.

Curius (or Chirius) Fortunatianus (fl. c. 450 A.D.), rhetorician and lawyer, 346, 347.

Cynics, the, 62.

Cyril of Alexandria (bishop 412-444 A.D.), 177.

Cyrus (date?), rhetorician, 102 note.

Dante, Alighieri (Dantes Aligerus) (b. 1265, d. 1321), poet. The De Vulgari Eloquio, Bk. III. chap. ii. See Contents. Also 5, 133, 172, 173, 354, 404, 406, 416-446, 462.

Dares Phrygius (probably no such person, book written c. 11th-12th cent. P.C. (?)), fabulous historian of Troy, 392, 410.

Darmesteter, Madame, 453, 454.

De Admiranda Vi Demosthenis, 129 sq.

De Antro Nympharum, 68-70.

De Causis corruptæ Eloquentiæ, 280 sq.

Declamations, 230 sq., 279 sq.

De Compositione, 129 sq.

De Dictamine Rhythmico, see Dictamen.

De Genealogia Deorum, 457 sq.

De Herodote Malignitate, 142, 143.

De Interpretatione, 89, 103, 104.

De Inventione (Longinus), 105-107.

—— (Cicero), 217.

491Deinarchus (b. c. 361 A.C., d. c. 280), Attic orator, 129 sq.

δεινὸς and δεινὸτης, how used, 97, 129.

Deipnosophistæ, 144, 145 note.

Delille, 167, 296.

Demetrius Phalereus (b. c. 345 A.C., d. (?)), statesman and orator, 71, 89, 103, 104, 196.

Democritus of Abdera (b. c. 460 A.C., d. 361), philosopher and humourist, 14, 15.

Demosthenes (b. c. 385 A.C., d. 322), orator, 129, 165, 166 sq., 187 note, 277, 294, 312.

De Nuptiis Philologiæ et Mercurii, 349-354, 377.

De Optimo Genere Oratorum, 218.

De Oratore, 217, 218.

De Quincey, 121 note, 244 note, 296.

Deschamps, Eustache (b. 1328, d. 1415), poet, &c., 454.

De Vulgari Eloquio, 406, 416-446.

Dialogus de Claris Oratoribus, 279 sq., 317 note, 357.

Dictamen, the, 407 sq.

Diction, see under Aristotle, Dionysius, Longinus, Quintilian, Dante.

—— Poetic, see Aristotle, Dante, Wordsworth.

Diderot, 119.

διήγημα, a story of a real event introduced into a speech, 90 sq. (διήγησις is the setting forth of the circumstances of the case).

Diogenes Laertius (fl. 2nd cent. P.C.), historian of philosophy, 14, 15 and notes, 89.

Dion Cassius (b. 155 A.D.), historian, 180.

Dion Chrysostom (b. c. 50 A.D., d. c. 117), rhetorician, 108-113, 195, 231.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (b. (?) came to Rome c. 29 A.C., d. 7 A.C.), rhetorician, historian, and critic, 5, 23, 70, 72, 96, 108, 127-137, 155 and note, 156 note, 185, 195, 219, 289, 444.

—— of Thrace (fl. c. 80 A.C.), grammarian, 65.

Disertus, 274 note.

Dobson, Mr Austin, 271 note.

Domitian—Martial on his modesty, 261, 262; Statius on his horse, 269; Quintilian on the poetry he would have written if he had written any, 311.

Douglas, Gavin (b. c. 1474, d. 1522), bishop, poet, and translator, 268, 406, 464-466.

Doxopater (11th cent. (?)), rhetorician, 97; (13th cent. (?)), 188.

“Drink to me only with thine eyes,” 119.

Dryden, John (b. 1631, d. 1700), poet and critic, 5, 23, 48, 56, 156 note.

“Earinos,” 263.

Eberhard of Bethune (fl. c. 1200?), author of Labyrinthus (?), 406.

Education, Plutarch on, 139 seq.

Egger, Émile, his Essai sur l’Histoire de la Critique chez les Grecs (1st ed., 1850), 6, Bk. I., notes, passim.

Eikones, the, of Philostratus, 119.

εἰσφορὰ νόμου, the “introduction” and discussion of law. One of the Progymnasmata, 91 sq.

ἔκφρασις, a set description intended to bring person, place, picture, &c., vividly before the mind’s eye. It is found largely in the Epideictic rhetoricians, and still more largely in the Greek Romances, 119 note.

Elevation, 46.

Empedocles (fl. c. 444 A.C.), philosopher, his fragments, 13, 14, 156.

Empiricus, see Sextus Empiricus.

Ennius, Q. (b. 239 A.C., d. 169), poet, 213 note, 310, 324, 401.

Epanodos = “deliberate repetition,” 303.

Epicheireme (form of rhet. argument), 100 and note.

Epictetus (fl. c. 100 A.D.), philosopher, 62.

Epicurean, the, 62 sq.

Epicurus (b. c. 342 A.C., d. 270), philosopher, 63.

Epideictic (the third kind of oratory—the rhetoric of display), Bk. I., chap, iv., passim.

ἐπιμέλεια, rhetorically and critically = “exactness,” 99 and note.

Epistle to Can Grande, 441, 442.

Epistola ad Pisones, 221 sq.

Erinna (fl. c. 612 A.C.), poetess, criticisms on her “Distaff,” 82-85.

492ἑρμηνεία (interpretatio), used in Rhet. rather ambiguously. Generally, as in the treatise of Dem. Phal. (103 sq.), it is nearly equivalent to “Theory of Prose Style.” Interpretatio in Latin is also used of a particular Fig. = conduplicatio, “explaining the thing over again, in different words.”

Espinette Amoureuse, L’, 454.

Ethopœia, “character-drawing.” This, which was one of the subjects of the Progymnasmata, is sometimes used generally, sometimes for a special technical exercise in making speeches suited to characters and situations (Aphth. distinguishes it from eidolopœia, and includes both in prosopopœia), 90 sq. = Quintilian’s “ethology,” 292.

Etymologiæ of Isidore, 400 sq.

Eunapius (b. 347 A.D.), sophist, 181.

“Euphemesis,” a Fulgentian word = “ritual” (?), 395.

Euphues and Euphuism, 139, 389, 394.

Eupolis (b. c. 446 A.C., d. c. 411), comic poet, 166.

εὕρεσις = inventio, the devising of topics, arguments, &c., suitable to the case; what the orator adds of his own to the facts and the law, 99 sq.

Euripides (b. 480 A.C., d. 406), dramatist, 22, 24, 112, 133, 211, 308.

Excellentia vocabulorum, 428 sq.

Expositio Virgiliana, 392-396.

Fable, the, 90, 401.

Faultlessness, 168 sq., 285 sq.

Favorinus (fl. c. 120 A.D.), rhetorician, 323, 327, 328.

Ferrers-Howell, Mr, 417 note and sq.

“Figures,” 43, 53, 102, 103 (and Bk. I. ch. iv. passim), 156 sq., 166 sq., 291 (Bk. II. ch. iii. passim), 360 sq., 374 sq., 432.

Filocopo, the, 457, 463.

Filostrato, the, 457, 463.

Flaccus (a critical friend of Martial), 260, 262.

—— poets, see Horace and Valerius.

Floire et Blanchefleur, 463, 475.

Florentine Dialect, 421 sq.

Florida, the, 363 and note.

Foix, Gaston de, 455.

Forms, the artificial, of French poetry, 449.

Fortunatianus, see Curius.

Fortunatus, see Venantius.

“Four, the,” Aristides’ speech for, 115, 116.

“Frigidity,” 43, 156.

Frogs, The, 6, 21-23, 270 note.

Froissart, 453-455.

Fronto, M. Cornelius (consul, 146 A.D.), rhetorician, 288 note.

Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades (6th cent. P.C.), 392-396, 459.

Galliambic metre, 305 and note.

Garland, or de Garlandia, John, see John of G.

Gascoigne, George (b. 1525 (?), d. 1577), 86, 471.

Gautier, Théophile, 62 note

Gellius, Aulus (fl. c. 150 A.D.), grammarian and man of letters, 186, 322-329.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf, see Vinsauf.

Georgius Choeroboscus (4th and 5th cent. P.C.), rhetorician, 103.

Georgius Pachymeres (b. c. 1242, d. c. 1310), Byzantine historian and rhetorician, 95.

Gesta Romanorum, the, 187, 394.

Gibbon, 384 and note.

Gifford on Philostratus, &c., 116.

Gnomæ, “sentences,” “maxims,” 91 and note, 298.

Gorgias of Athens (fl. 1st cent. A.C.), rhetorician, 346.

Gorgias of Leontini (fl. 5th cent. A.C. at Athens, 427), rhetorician and sophist, 16, 45, 159, 160.

γοργότης, rhetorical and critical term = “nervousness,” “poignancy,” &c., 99.

Gracchus, Sempronius (b. c. 160 A.C., d. 121), demagogue, his style, 229 note, 325.

Grammar, Quintilian on, 291, 292; in Martianus, 353.

Grammarians, the Greek, the Roman, 361, 362.

Grammatica (and “grammar”), Dante’s meaning of, 419 sq.

Grammaticus = more than mere “grammarian,” 343.

Grand Style, the, 336.

Graphica lexis, written as opposed to spoken style (v. Aristotle, Rhetoric, iii. 12. 1), 201, 202.

493Gryll Grange, 381 note.

Guest’s English Rhythms, 405.

Hall (17th cent. translator of Longinus), 154.

Halliwell, J. O., 407.

Hardie, Professor, Preface, 263 note, 305 note.

Havell, Mr H. L., 153 note.

Hawes, Stephen (fl. c. 1500), poet, 406.

Heine, H., 202.

Heliodorus (fl. c. 400 A.D.), bishop and novelist, 180, 181.

Hermagoras (fl. 1st cent. A.C.), rhetorician and teacher of Cicero, 349, 377.

Hermogenes (fl. c. 170), rhetorician, 89-92, 97-100, and Bk. I. ch. iv. passim, 196.

Herodian (Aelius Herodianus) (2nd cent. P.C.), rhetorician and grammarian, 103.

Herodotus (b. 484 A.C., d. c. 406), historian, 130 sq., 142, 143, 178-180, 296, 312.

Heroica, or Heroic Dialogue of Philostratus, 120.

Herondas (?) (“Herodes”) (? 3rd cent. A.C.), mimiambic poet, 273.

Herrick, 324 note.

Hildebrand of Padua, 424 note.

Hillard, Miss K., 441 note and sq.

Himerius (fl. 4th cent. P.C.), sophist and rhetorician, 125 note, 183.

Hippolytus, the Latin, 247.

Hirsuta = “shaggy words,” Dante on, 429 sq.

History, How to Write, 147, 148.

Homer, Criticism of, 10-12, 27, 49, 50, 79-81, 82-87, 100, 130 sq., 156 sq., 206, 307, 343, 410, 463.

—— and Plato, Max. Tyrius on, 117, 118.

—— scholia on, 78-81.

Homeric Allegories, 187.

Homeric Problems (Aristotle’s), 49, 50, 185 note.

Homeric Questions (Porphyry’s), 68-70.

“Homilies” of Doxopater, 97; of Longinus, 187; Isidore’s use of the word, 402 note.

Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus) (b. 65 A.C., d. 8 A.C.), poet, 212, 221-230, 258, 294, 301, 311, 356, 360 sq., 432.

Hugo, Victor, 202, 365.

Hyperbaton = “alteration of order for rhetorical purposes,” 137.

Hyperides (b. c. 390? A.C., d. 322), orator, 169.

Hypodiæresis = “distribution of indictment,” 98.

Hypotheses, not admitted, 6.

Iamblichus the romancer (fl. c. 100 A.D.), 176, 180; not Iamblichus the philosopher (fl. c. 300 A.D.)

Ideas, the Platonic, their bearing on criticism, 18 sq., 67 sq.; rhetorical sense of, 99 sq.

Iliad, the scholia on, 80, 81, 474 (see also Homer and Odyssey).

“Illustrious Vulgar Tongue,” the, Bk. III. ch. ii. passim.

Impressionism, 54. This term has as yet been very loosely defined. As used, for instance, by the late Mr R. A. M. Stevenson in his Velasquez, it carries an almost Aristotelian sense of generalisation from mere impression. But this is certainly not the general theory, and even less the usual practice, of the “Impressionist.”

In Memoriam, 93, 94.

Institutiones Oratoriæ, 289-321.

Ion, the, of Plato, 19, 20

Isæus of Chalcis (fl. c. 420, 348 A.C.), one of the Ten Orators, 49, 129 sq.

—— the Assyrian (fl. c. 100 A.D.), orator and rhetorical teacher, 272.

Isidore of Seville (bishop from 600 A.D. to 636), 375, 400.

Isocrates (b. 436 A.C., d. 338), orator or rhetorician, 17, 6-28, 129 sq., 160, 169, 182, 190, 214, 312.

Italian Dialects, the, 423 sq.

Jerome, St, 462.

Jevons, Mr F. B., 144 note.

John of Garlandia (12th cent.), metrical writer, 407 sq.

John of Hauteville (12th cent.), poet, 410 sq.

494John of Salisbury (12th cent.), philosopher, &c., 414 note.

John of Sicily (13th cent.), scholiast on Hermogenes, &c., 102 note, 106, 171 note, 175, 187-190, 432.

John Philoponos (fl. c. 600 A.D.), grammarian, 177.

John Tzetzes (12th cent.), grammarian, &c., 102.

Johnson, Dr, 467 note, 472.

Jonson, Ben (1573-1637), poet and critic, 86, 119, 120, 236 note, 244 note, 263 note.

Josephus, Flavius (b. 37 A.D., d. c. 100), soldier and historian, 177.

Josephus Rhacendyta (13th cent.), rhetorician, 101.

Julian (the Apostate) (b. 331 A.D.; Emperor, 361-363, d. 363), 109, 125, 126.

Juvenal (Dec. Junius Juvenalis) (fl. late 1st cent. P.C.), satiric poet, 252-250, 409.

κάθαρσις, purgation or purification, 38.

κατεστραμμένη (= periodic), 48 note.

Keats, 252.

Keil, Herr, 403.

Kingsley, C., 270.

Labyrinthus, 406 sq.

Lampridius (friend of Sidonius), 388, 389.

Lang, Mr Andrew, 153 note.

Language, European, Dante on, 421 sq.

Latro, M. Porcius (d. 4 A.C.), rhetorician, 236 sq.

Laws, the, of Plato, 19, 20.

λήκυθος and ληκύθιον, 270 note.

Letters, the, of Philostratus, 119.

—— of Libanius, 121 note, 123, 124.

—— of Pliny, 270-279.

—— of Seneca, 247.

Lexiphanes, 148, 149.

Lexis (meaning varies from “diction” to “style”), see Diction.

Leyser, Polycarp (1690-1728), motto on reverse of half-title, 403, 407 sq.

Libanius (b. c. 314 A.D., d. c. 395), rhetorician, 109, 121-124, 181.

Lives, Plutarch’s, 137, 138; of Orators, 141, 142.

Livy (T. Livius) (b. 59 A.C., d. 17 A.D.), historian, 212, 306, 312.

Longinus, Cassius (assumed as the author of the Περὶ Ὕψους) (b. c. 213 A.D., d. 273), statesman, rhetorician, and critic. Bk. I. ch. v. (for headings see Contents), 5, 23, 25, 61, 72, 73, 96, 105-107, 113, 120, 131, 136, 138, 150, 151, 152-174, 185, 187 note, 190 note, 197, 219, 226, 241, 285, 290, 296, 301, 306, 320, 431, 432, 438, 444.

Lubrica = “slippery” words, 429 sq., 439 sq.

Lucan (M. Annæus Lucanus) (b. 39 A.D., d. 65), poet, 265 note, 269, 311, 410.

Lucian (b. c. 120 A.D., d. c. 200), satirist, 105, 108, 146-152, 181, 182, 195, 294, 321.

—— (4th cent. P.C.), subject of a speech of Libanius, 123.

Lucilius, C. (b. 148 A.C., d. 103), satiric poet, 229 and note, 230.

Lucius of Patræ (?), romancer, 181.

Lucretius (T. L. Carus) (b. 95 (?) A.C., d. 51 (?) 52 (?)), poet, 13, 212, 214-217, 267, 268, 269, 310, 318, 356.

Lullius, Lully, or Lull, Raymond (b. 1235, d. 1315), scholastic philosopher, 371 note, 446 note.

Lupus, see Rutilius.

Luxorius (6th cent. P.C.), African epigrammatist, 344.

Lycophron (rhetorician of 5th cent. B.C., not Alexandrian poet of 3rd), 45.

Lyly, 139.

Lyrical Ballads, preface to, Pref., vii, 436.

Lysias (b. 458 A.C., d. 378), 21 note, 99, 129 sq.

Macer, Æmilius (d. 16 A.C.), didactic poet, 310, 410.

Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodorius (fl. c. 400 A.D.), grammarian, 329-334.

“Maidens in the Eyes,” the, 160, 161.

Malatesta, Sig. Pand., 123 note.

Mallius Theodorus, F. (fl. c. 400 A.D.), metrical writer, 404. His definition of rhythm is that it appears in those places of the lyric and tragic poets where certa pedum conlatione neglecta, sola temporum ratio considerata sit.

495Malory, Sir T., 453.

Map or Mapes, Walter (12th cent.), poet, &c., 405, 407 sq., 470.

Mari, Signor G., 407 sq.

Marius Victorinus, C. (fl. c. 350 A.D.), grammarian and rhetorician, 348, 380.

Marlowe, 252.

Marsus, Domitius (fl. c. 1 A.D.), poet, &c., 262, 264, 295.

Martialis, M. Valerius (b. 43 A.D., d. 104(?)), poet, 256-268, 269, 272, 273, 285, 294, 356.

Martianus Capella (M. Minneius Felix C.) (fl. c. 450 (?)), grammarian, &c., 349-354, 377, 406.

Master of the Orators, Lucian’s, 150, 151.

Maternus, see Curiatius Maternus.

Matius or Mattius, C., mimiambic poet, 324 note.

Matthias, Vindocinensis (12th cent.?), poet, 411 and note.

Maximianus (fl. 5th or 6th cent. P.C.), elegiac poet and epigrammatist, 409.

Maximus Tyrius (fl. c. 170 A.D.), rhetorician and philosopher, 109, 117, 118, 457 note.

Meiosis, “passing reference,” 297 and note.

Meleager (fl. 1st cent. A.C.), poet, 83.

Méliador, 453.

Menander the dramatist (b. 342 A.C., d. 291), 82; Plutarch’s comparison of him with Aristophanes, 143, 206, 308, 324, 343, 387.

Menander the rhetorician (fl. end of 5th cent. P.C.), his book on Epideictic, 104, 105.

Menelaus (mentioned by Longinus, therefore before 3rd cent. (?)), poet, 189.

Messal(l)a (M. Valerius M. Corvinus) (b. c. 70 A.C., d. c. 1 A.D.), soldier, statesman, poet, and orator, 239.

—— L. Vipstanus, 282 sq.

Metalepsis = “exchange of words,” one of the most difficult of these figure-terms. Sometimes it is mere metonymy, as “Hephæstus” for “fire”: sometimes it expresses a much more complicated and arbitrary process, 300.

Metaplasm = “change of letters or syllables,” 400.

Metaphor, Aristotle on, 43 sq.; Longinus on, 167 sq.; Quintilian on, 299 sq., 376.

Metre, definition of, 47 note.

Metrodorus (b. c. 330 A.C., d. 277), Epicurean philosopher, 63.

“Milesian Tales,” the, 21.

Milton, 50, 286, 404.

Mimes, the prose Greek, 21 note, 22.

Mimesis, “Imitation,” Bk. I. ch. iii., passim.

Mimiambic poetry, 208, 276, 324.

Minucianus (date?), rhetorician, 105.

Moore, Dr, 417 note and sq.

Moore, T., 199, 315.

Moralia, Plutarch’s, 63, 137 sq.

Morley, Prof. H., 455 note.

Moyen de Parvenir, the, 243.

Munro, Mr H. A. J., 229 note.

Murredius, a foolish declaimer in Seneca the Elder, 233 sq.

Mycterism = “suppressed sneering,” 301 and #note:f396.

Nævius, Cn. (b. c. 270 A.C., d. c. 200), poet, 471.

Neo-Platonists, the, 66-70.

Neoptolemus of Parium (?), 221 note.

Nero’s poetry, 250 sq.

Nettleship, Mr Henry, 61 note, 211 note, 213 note, 218, 219, 221 note, 229 note, 230 and note, 240, 283 sq., 288 note, 320.

Nicephorus (11th cent.), rhetorician, 95.

Nicolaus or Nicolas (fl. c. 900 A.D.?), rhetorician, 95.

Noctes Atticæ, 241 note, 322-329.

Nova Poetria, 406, 412 sq.

Oc, oil, and si, Dante on, 422, 423.

Octavia, the Senecan, 247.

Odyssey, the, scholia on, 69, 70; Longinus on, 156, 162, 163 (see also Homer), 340, 473, 474.

οἰκεῖα ἡδονή, Aristotle’s doctrine of, 55.

Oil, oc, and si, Dante on, 422, 423.

“Olympic,” Dion Chrysostom’s, 112.

Orator, Cicero’s, 218.

Origines of Isidore, 400 sq.

Orithyia, the, of Æschylus, 155, 159, 187, 190.

496Orosius, Paulus (fl. c. 413 A.D.), historian, 386, 391, 429.

Oscus (?), declaimer, 234, 235.

Ovid, P. Ovidius Naso (b. 43 A.C., d. 18 A.D.), poet, 212, 216 note, 230 note, 310.

Pacuvius, M. (b. c. 220 A.C., d. 130), tragic poet, 326.

Pæan or pæon (foot, 3 short 1 long), 47, 305.

Palæmon, Q. Remmius (fl. 1st cent. P.C.), schoolmaster and rhetorician, 387 and note.

Pamphilus (d. 307 A.D.), scholar, book collector, and martyr, 401, 409.

Pange Lingua (hymn), 396.

Panther, note on the, 425.

Paradiastole = “antithetic distinction,” 303.

“Parallel Passage,” the, 322 note, 331 sq.

Parasiopesis = “affected reticence,” 303.

Parenthesis, 178 note, 296.

παρένθυρσον, τὸ, 156, 160.

Paris, M. Paulin, 415 note.

Parmenides (fl. 5th cent. A.C.), Eleatic philosopher, his fragments, 13.

Paromologia = “insidious concession,” 303.

“Passions,” Longinus’s lost treatise on, 150.

Pasti Cadaveribus, 232.

“Patavinity,” 235 note, 296.

Patristic view of Criticism, 380-382.

Phantasia, 119.

Phidias, Dion Chrysostom’s discourse for, 112.

Philippus of Thessalonica (fl. c. 100 A.D.), epigrammatist, 85, 86.

Peacock, T. L., 381 note.

Periodic Style, 48.

Periphrasis, 167.

περὶ μιμησέως, 133 note.

Περὶ Ὕψους, the, 106, 146, 151, 152-174, 197.

Persius (A. P. Flaccus) (b. 34 A.D., d. 62), satiric poet, 247-253, 409.

Perspicuity, 296.

Petrarch, Francis (b. 1304, d. 1374), poet, &c., 432 note, 456, 462.

Petronius Arbiter, C. or T. (?) (b. (?), d. 66 A.D.), 242-245, 246.

Pexa = “combed-out words,” 429 sq., 439 sq.

Phædrus, the, 18-21.

Pherecrates (1st prize 438 A.C.), comic poet, 13 note.

Philobiblion or Philobiblon, the, 414 note, 455, 456 and note.

Philoctetes, Dion Chrysostom on plays about, 109, 110.

Philodemus of Gadara (fl. 1st cent. A.C.), epicure and philosopher and poet (?), 63, 64.

Philological Homilies, the, of Longinus, 171 note, 187.

Philosophy of Rhetoric, Campbell’s, 295 note.

Philostratus, Flavius (son of a Lemnian professor of the same name in the 2nd century, and grandfather of a third Philostratus, who, like him, wrote Imagines in the late 3rd cent.) (b. c. 182 A.D., d. c. 250), rhetorician and miscellanist, 109, 118-121, 147.

Phœbammon (fl. c. 400 A.D.?), rhetorician, 103.

Photius (fl. 9th cent. P.C., Patriarch of Constantinople, 858-886, with interval), lexicographer and literary historian, 121 note, 175-186.

Phrynichus (fl. 2nd cent. P.C.), sophist and grammarian, 183.

Physiologus, the, 411 and note.

Pindar (b. c. 522 A.C., d. c. 442), poet, 131, 132, 308, 327, 333.

Piron, 260.

Pisistratean redaction of Homer, the, 6, 9.

Pistis, 41, 58.

“Placing” in Criticism, 291.

Plato (b. c. 429 A.C., d. 347), philosopher, 5, 7, 13, 17-21 and note, 51, 66, 83, 108, 112, 145 note, 188, 192, 299, 305, 309, 462.

—— and Homer, Max. Tyrius on, 117, 118.

Plautus, T. Maccius (b. c. 254 A.C., d. 184), 213 note, 240, 294, 311, 356.

Pliny the Elder (C. Plinius Secundus) (b. 23 A.D., d. 79), encyclopædist.

Pliny the Younger (C. Plinius Cæcilius Secundus) (b. 61 A.D. d. (?)), advocate, statesman, and letter-writer, 264, 270-279, 357, 358.

497Plotinus (b. c. 203 A.D., d. 262), philosopher, 67, 68.

Plutarch (fl. c. 90 A.D.), biographer and moral philosopher, 63, 66, 108, 137-146, 153, 195.

Poema del Cid, 422.

Poetic Diction, 436.

Poetics, the, 32-39, and Bk. I. ch. iii. passim, 432.

Poetry and Philosophy, Max. Tyrius on, 117, 118; Boccaccio on, 457.

Pollio, C. Asinius (b. 76 A.C., d. 4 A.D.), orator, poet, &c., 235 and note, 237, 238, 239.

Polus (fl. 5th cent. A.C.), rhetorician and sophist, 16.

Polybius of Sardis (date?), rhetorician, 103.

Polyptoton = “variation of rhetorical effect by using different cases,” 157.

Porphyry (-ius) (b. 233 A.D., d. c. 306), philosopher and commentator, 68-70, 80.

Prior, Mat., 259.

Prison Amoureuse, La, 454.

Pro Archia, 221 note.

Procatastasis = “introduction to narrative,” 98.

Proclus (b. 412 A.D., d. 485), philosopher, 67.

Prodiegesis = “preliminary statement,” 98.

Progymnasmata, partial declamations: preliminary exercises in the chief parts of a speech, 89 sq.

Pro Juvene contra Meretricem, 232, 233.

Prometheus Es, the, of Lucian, 149.

Prompt, Dr, 417 and note.

Propriety, 46.

Prose Rhythm, see Rhythm.

Prosody, Greek, 201, 202.

Protagoras (fl. 5th cent. A.C., at Athens), 430, rhetorician and sophist, 14, 15.

Provençal arts of Poetry, 407 note.

——, Dante on, 422 sq.

Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens (b. c. 350 A.D., d. c. 420), 364, 365 and note, 471.

Psellus (one in 9th, another in 11th cent.), rhetorician, 102.

Psychagogia, 66 and note.

Puritanism and Literature, 380 sq.

“Purity,” 46.

Puttenham, G., List of Figures in his Art of Poetry, 44.

Pyrrhonists, the, 62 sq.

Quadrivium, the, 351, 366, 367, 432.

Questions, Roman, Plutarch’s, 144.

Quintilian (M. Fabius Quintilianus) (b. 40 A.D., d. c. 118), advocate and Professor of Oratory. His Institutes thereof, Bk. II. chap. iii. For headings see Contents. Also, 5, 61, 72, 73, 96, 131, 133, 136, 155, 185, 212, 232-234, 242, 246, 248 and note, 251 and note, 256, 258, 279, 288, 289-321, 359, 409.

Rabelais, 168, 190, 249, 394.

Rabirius (fl. 1st cent. A.C.), 310.

Rajna, Signor P., 417 note.

Rapin, 173 and note.

Reading, Plutarch on, 139 sq.

Rebecca and Rowena, 451 note.

Reburra ( = “words with hair the wrong way”), 429 sq., 439 sq.

Reliquiæ Antiquæ, 407 and note, 411 note.

Republic, the, of Plato, 18-21 and note.

Rex æterne domine, hymn, 404.

Rhetoric, Aristides’ defence of, 115, 116; Martianus Capella’s personification of, 351, 352.

Rhetoric, the, of Aristotle, Bk. I. chap. iii. passim.

—— of Dionysius, 129 sq.

—— of Hermogenes, 90 sq.

Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, 17 note.

Rhétoriqueurs, the French, 467, 483.

Rhythm, prose, Aristotle on, 47; Dionysius on, 131; Quintilian on, 304 sq.

Richard of Bury (Aungervyle), 455, 456.

Roberts, Prof. Rhys, 9 note, 153 note, 171 note.

Roman dialect, the, 423.

Roman Questions, The, 144.

Romance, 379 note, 474 sq.

—— languages, Dante on, 422 sq.

Romance of the Rose, the, 187, 393.

Romantic Criticism, 172, 286.

Ruskin, Mr, 305, 424 note.

Rutherford, Mr, 74 note.

Rutilius (P. R. Lupus) (fl. c. 1 A.D.), rhetorician, 346.

Rymer, 173.

498Saint Augustine, see Augustine.

Saleius Bassus (fl. c. 80 A.D.), poet, 281.

Salimarius or Solinarius (date ?), poet, 410.

Sallust (C. Sallustius Crispus) (b. 86 A.C., d. 34), historian, 212, 305, 306, 312.

Sappho (fl. c. 600 A.C.), poetess: the Anthology on her, 81-87; her Hymn to Aphrodite, 132; her Ode to Anactoria, 154, 163, 164.

Satirists, Roman, and Criticism, 247-268.

Saturnalia, the, 329-334.

Satyricon, the, 242-245.

Scandinavian Rhetoric, Early, 467 note.

Scholastic Philosophy and Criticism, 446 note.

Scholiasts, the Greek, 73-81.

Scott, Sir Walter, 121.

Seneca, the Father (M. Annæus S.) (b. c. 61 A.C., d. c. 35 A.D. (?)), rhetorician, 230-240.

Seneca, the Son (L. Annæus S.) (b. c. 10 A.C., d. 65 A.D.), statesman and philosophical writer, 62, 245-247; Quintilian on, 313; A. Gellius on, 325, 326, 347 (?).

Seneca, the Tragedian (?), 245 sq.

“Sentences,” Quintilian on, 298, 299.

Servius, Marius or Maurus Honoratus (fl. c. 400 A.D.), grammarian and Virgilian commentator, 334-340, 459.

Severus (fl. 5th cent. P.C.), rhetorician, 95.

—— Cassius, see Cassius Severus.

—— Cornelius, see Cornelius Severus.

Sextilius Ena (fl. just A.C.), poet, 235.

Sextus Empiricus (fl. c. 225 A.D.), physician and Pyrrhonist, 64-66.

Shakespeare, 39, 118, 120 note, 173, 286, #389 note;f491#, 404.

Shelley, 199, 215.

Si, oil, and oc, Dante on, 422, 423.

Sicilian School of Greek rhetoric, 16, 41; of Italian poetry, 423 sq.

Sidonius Apollinaris (C. Sollius S.A.) (b. c. 431 A.D., bishop 472, d. 482 (?), 484 (?)), 344 note, 383-389, 404 note.

“Sieve, the Chapter of the,” 439 sq.

Silius Italicus, C. (b. c. 25, consul, 68 A.D., d. 100), poet, 258.

Simonides (fl. c. 664 A.C.), poet, 308.

Simylus (fl. c. 355 A.C.), middle comic poet, 25 and note, 51, 54, 198.

Sinonis and Rhodanes, 176.

Sir Thopas, 450-452.

Snorri Sturluson, 467 note.

Somnium Scipionis, 329.

Sopater (6th cent. P.C. ?), rhetorician, 102 note.

Sophocles, (b. 495 A.C., d. 406), tragic poet, 112, 133, 169, 200, 308.

——, scholia on, 77, 78.

Speculum Stultorum, 414 note.

Stasis and staseis = “states of case,” 72, 97 sq.

Statius (P. Papinius) (b. c. 61 A.D., d. c. 96), 216 note, 255, 268-270; poet, 409, 410.

Stesichorus (fl. c. 600), 308.

Stilo, L. Ælius Præconinus (fl. c. 100 A.C.), 240.

Stohæus, John (fl. c. 500 A.D.), compiler, &c., 183, 185.

Stoics, the, 62, 246.

Style, Aristotle on, 42 sq.

Suasoria, 234 sq.

“Sublimity” and the Sublime, 153 sq.; sources of, 161 sq.

Sulpicia (fl. c. 100 A.D.), poetess, 265 and note.

Super Thebaiden, 394.

Superbia Carminum, 428 sq.

Sylvæ of Statius, 268, 269.

Symmachus, Q. Aurelius (præf. urb., 384 A.D.), 330 sq.

Symposiacs, Plutarch’s, 144-146.

Synesius (fl. c. 400), bishop, poet, and philosopher, 176, 177.

Tacitus, C. Cornelius (b. (?), consul, 97 A.D., d. c. 120 (?)), historian, 212, 219, 270, 271, 274 note:, 277, 280-284 (?), 312, 387.

Taine, M., 241, 283 note.

Tapeinosis = “mean language,” 297 and note.

Tennyson, 241, 252, 326.

Terence (P. Terentius Afer), (b. 195 A.C., d. 159), comic poet, 213 note, 311, 387.

Terentianus Maurus (fl. c. 100 A.D.), metrical writer, 404 note.

499Thackeray, 266, 338.

Thebaid, the, 269, 394, 410.

Themistius (fl.. 4th cent. P.C., prefect of Constantinople, 384), rhetorician, philosopher, and statesman, 109, 123.

Theocritus (fl. 3rd cent. A.C.), poet, 307.

Theodolus (12th cent.), writer, 409.

Theodorus (author of phrase parenthyrson) = probably Th. of Gadara, very famous as rhetorician just before and about the Christian era (there was another Th. of Byzantium in Plato’s time), 156 note.

Theon, Aelius (3rd cent. A.D. (?)), rhetorician, 93-95.

Theophrastus (b. (?) d. in very old age, 287 A.C.), philosopher, 61 and note, 235 note, 296, 309.

Théry, Augustin François (b. 1796, d. 1878), Histoire des opinions Littéraires, vi note, 9 note, 320 note.

Thomson, James, 296.

Thucydides, son of Olorus (b. 471 A.C., d. c. 401), 111, 129 sq., 190, 305, 312.

Tiberius (date ?), rhetorician, 103.

Timæus (fl. c. 350-250 A.C.), historian, 160.

Tisias (fl. 5th cent. A.C.), rhetorician, 16.

Translation, Dante on, 442, 443.

“Transport,” Longinus on, 155 sq.

Trattatello, Boccaccio’s, on Dante, 457 sq.

Trench, Archbishop, 68, 69.

Trissino, 417.

Tristram Shandy, 243.

Trivium, the, 351, 366, 367, 432.

“Trojan Oration,” Dion Chrysostom’s, 111.

Trope, distinction of, from Figure, 301 note.

Troy, the Tale of, 120.

Tuscan Dialect, 420 sq.

Twelve Wise Men, the, 344.

Twice Accused Man, Lucian’s, 150, 151.

Tynnichus of Chalcis (fl. 5th cent. A.C. (?)), poet, 20 and note.

Tzetzes, John (12th cent.), grammarian, 175.

Umbraticus doctor, 244 note.

Unity of Action the only true Aristotelian “Unity,” 37.

Valerius Flaccus (fl. 1st cent. P.C.), poet, 310.

Varro, Terentius (b. 116 A.C., d. 28), grammarian and miscellaneous writer, 240, 241.

—— P. V. Atacinus (b. 82 A.C.), poet, 310.

Venantius Fortunatus (V. Honorius Clementianus F.) (b. 530 A.D., d. c. 610), presbyter and poet, 396-399, 406.

Vergilius Romanus (fl. c. 100), comic and mimiambic poet, 276.

Vexilla Regis, hymn, 396.

Victor, Sulpicius (?), rhetorician, 349.

Victorinus (Marius) (fl. 4th cent. P.C.), rhetorician, 348, 349, 380, 405.

Vinsauf, Geoffrey of (fl. c. 1200), poet, 406.

Virgil (P. Virgilius or Vergilius Maro) (b. 70 A.C., d. 19), 212, 214, 216 note, 248, 269, 310, 324-340 passim, 344, 377, #378 note:f465:, 465, 466.

Volcatius Sedigitus (fl. c. 100 A.C.), poet (?), 213 note, 241.

Walpole, Horace, 271 note.

Wireker, Nigel (d. 1188), monk and poet, 414 note.

Wit, Quintilian on, 293-295.

Wordsworth, W., 39, 296, 436.

Wright, Thomas, 377 note, 405 note, 410 note.

Xenophanes of Colophon (fl. 6th cent. A.C.), philosopher, 11; his fragments, 12, 13.

Xenophon (b. c. 444 A.C., d. c. 354), historian, historical novelist, and miscellaneous writer, 161, 309.

Youthfulness, mediæval, 470 sq.

Zenodotus (fl. c. 208), grammarian and critic, 74, 75.

Zoilus (fl. 4th cent. A.C.), 75, 79, 302.

Zonæus (date?), rhetorician, 103.

ζῷον, meaning of, in the Poetics, 33 note.

Transcriber’s Note

There was no opening half-title in the source used to prepare this text.

No attempt was made to check the validity of each index entry’s references, however several of them seem spurious:

“Antimachus” is referred to a note on p. 20, but it is unclear which note that may be. He is mentioned by name on the page itself.

“Mimes, the prose Greek”, is not mentioned either in a note on p. 21, nor on p. 22 itself.

“Plato” is not mentioned in any note on p. 145.

Notes

49.20: The word ‘curial’ on p. 49 (“a curial instance of that commentatorial lues...”) seems odd. ‘Crucial’ may have been intended, but seems more likely to have been ‘curious’.

Corrections

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

109.24 He travelled over[ a] great part Added.

158.note Longi[un/nu]s Transposed.

195.32 Sword of Sharpness itself[,] but he is Added.

201.6 to so much advantage as with Greek[.] Added.

203.26 oratory in Greece is not[,] nor is Restored.

205.25 for personal genealogy[;] Added.

209.3 Quintil[l]ian Removed.

212.note in reference to Latin Criticism[.] Added.

215.3 is very unlikely[.] Added.

229.note Satires (second series[)], Added.

234.11 “Suasories[’/”] Replaced.

237.22 seemed to Aristotle himself himself[.] Added.

251.note the confusion of tragic and epic style[.] Added.

266.8 by no means i[n/m]maculate Replaced.

267.11 every kind of poetry[.] Added.

307.note a substantial portion of Antimachus[.] Added.

406.28 of the present chapter[.] Added.

457.11 is not yet there[.] Added.

462.note when he [(denied /denied (] (loc. cit.) Moved parenthesis.

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Note 1 · To supplement these two general treatises, we could wish for more particular applications, but we have not got them. We have indeed some vesNote 2 · Ed. 2, Paris, 1849. The first edition may have appeared between 1830 and 1840. Vapereau says 1844, which would strengthen my point in the teNote 1 · I am not aware of any complete treatment of the subject of Greek criticism except that of M. Egger already cited, and, as part of a still laNote 6 · Ibid., i. 1. 55. Fr. 17. The philosopher says merely ἐρεβίνθους, but we know from Pherecrates (ap. Athenæum, ii. 44) that they were parched Note 15 · And the authority for this, Themistius, is very late. The catalogue of the works given by Diogenes Laertius (ed. cit., p. 240) includes nothNote 17 · Prodicus in the “Choice of Hercules.”Note 20 · There is not the slightest evidence for assigning the Rhetoric called ad Alexandrum, and variously attributed to Aristotle and Anaximenes, tNote 21 · Not only have we not this: we have practically nothing of Tynnichus. His page in Bergk (iii. 379) is blank, except for the phrase which PlatNote 23 · If the space and treatment here allotted to Plato seem exceeding poor and beggarly, it can but be urged that his own criticism of literatureNote 26 · See Egger (p. 73), who as usual makes a little too much of it. The original may be found in Athenæus (at the opening of Bk. vi. 222 a: vol. Note 27 · As the Greek is not in some editions of Meineke’s Fragments, and is not given by Egger at all, while his translation is very loose, it will Note 28 · I.e., the official acceptance of the piece, and the supply of a chorus to bring it out. It ought, however, perhaps to be added that the wordNote 3 · I need hardly express, but could not possibly omit the expression of, my indebtedness to my friend and colleague Professor Butcher’s admirabNote 5 · Here one of the first very important differences of interpretation comes in. Professor Butcher would translate ζῷον “picture,” as though it Note 9 · No edition with commentary can here be recommended to English readers with quite such confidence as Professor Butcher’s Poetics. That of E. Note 13 · Metre being neither more nor less than definitely recurrent rhythm, first within the line, then in corresponding lines.Note 14 · In the Greek εἰρομένη, “strung together,” and κατεστραμμένη, “inter-twisted.”Note 1 · As in other cases, Theophrastus has been criticised very largely on rather slim vouchers. For instance, the quotation (in Cic. Orat., 39) onNote 3 · This doctrine, best known to English readers, perhaps, from Mr Arnold’s not quite fair application of it to Théophile Gautier, is of much moNote 4 · Who thanks Heaven (i. 17) that he did not make more progress in rhetoric and poetry.Note 13 · The “leading of the soul” to truths, and gifts, and pleasures. Aristotle likewise adopts the word: and indeed it contains in itself the soulNote 22 · I do not pretend to have extensively consulted or “compulsed” the learned and admirable labours of Mr Rutherford on this subject. But I haveNote 40 · Ibid., i. 111-117. There are 48 of them. Aristotle had versatility enough to do them, but they do not read like him.Note 55 · ii. 3.Note 74 · χρεῖαι, rather “maxims” than “uses” in the theological sense. Hermogenes exhausts his special gift in distinguishing them from the more geneNote 83 · Generally rendered “nervousness,” though Ernesti prefers “celerity.” is “diligent exactness”; περιβολὴ κατ' ἔννοιαν, “argumentative exaltatiNote 84 · A peculiar form of enthymeme, falling short of complete demonstration. ἐργασία is “handling” or “workmanship,” with a special connotation.Note 85 · An exception, for reasons to be given later, will be made in favour of the work of John the Siceliote (see chap. vi. of this book, p. 187 sqNote 86 · About half of the eighth volume, however, is occupied by a long distribution of “questions” (ζητήματα) into heads, by one Sopater, who givesNote 22 · Achilles Tatius is later, and very likely imitated Philostratus. The two together perhaps give the best examples of ecphrasis (see Index).Note 23 · Vit. Ap., vi. 19, ed. cit., i. 231: “Imagination, a wiser craftsmistress than Imitation, has done this; for Imitation will fashion what she Note 26 · See Photius on him, infra, p. 181.Note 27 · De Quincey’s truculent attack on Greek rhetoricians generally (Essay on Rhetoric: Works, x. 31, 32) is less unjust to Libanius than to any oNote 32 · Orationes, ed. Dindorf (Leipsic, 1832). Reiske, in a passage quoted at p. xii. of this, rates Themistius as, among other things, vanus jactaNote 33 · I do not know that Julian was in strictness a “pupil” of Themistius, but the tone of the long epistle to him, ed. cit., inf., i. 328, is at Note 6 · See on this point Usener (op. cit.), who would rather suppose a common indebtedness. The “censures” form the bulk of the fragments which he Note 15 · II. 250-320. The Greek title αἴτια is rather “cause” than “question.” But Philemon Holland’s translation of 1603 (recently reprinted, with aNote 17 · We are, however, by no means so fortunate (from the point of view of this book) in our remains of Greek Symposiacs as we are in those of LatNote 31 · The most elaborate discussion of the whole matter still is that of Vaucher (Geneva, 1854). The editions I myself use are those of Toup (OxfoNote 33 · Blair saw this, but, with the ill-luck of his century, regarded the work as merely “elegant.”Note 35 · A Sicilian rhetor, probably of Calacte, said by Suidas to have been of Greek, or at any rate non-Roman, birth, and a Jew in religion. DionysNote 38 · A phrase of the rhetor Theodorus, meaning “the thyrsus poked in at the wrong time,” “enthusiasm out of place.”Note 39 · λόγων κρίσις πολλῆς ἐστι πείρας τελευταῖον ἐπιγέννημα. Dionysius (v. supra, pp. 130, 131) had said as much in sense, but less magisterially Note 40 · This word, which has the stamp of Dryden, is often preferable to “composition.”Note 53 · I must be allowed to say that it contains one of the most ambitious and successful passages of Longinus as an original writer—the vindicatioNote 55 · “John of Sicily” (Walz, vi. 225), who in the thirteenth century cites the lost φιλόλογοι ὁμιλίαι almost as if he was citing the Περὶ Ὕψους, Note 1 · Sir Thomas Pope Blount, Characters and Censures of the most Considerable Poets. London, 1694. P. 58. “Rapin tells us that Dantes Aligerus waNote 8 · It is odd to find the hatred of the harmless necessary parenthesis, the delight of all full minds and quick wits, and the terror of the ignoNote 25 · Unless, which one would rather not think, he meant the Problems (v. supra p. 49 sq.) as such.Note 26 · There is in Photius a later notice of Isocrates, in connection with others of the usual set of Attic orators; and these are chiefly interestNote 33 · Besides citing the Orithyia passage John also refers to Longinus as admiring Moses (Walz, vi. 211), which, of course, strengthens the supposNote 1 · I am not aware of any work, corresponding to Egger’s, in reference to Latin Criticism.Criticism. But in English there is an Essay of the firNote 2 · The actual primacy is assigned to a verse canon of the Ten Latin Comic Poets by a certain Volcatius Sedigitus, who may be close to 100 B.C. Note 6 · It is one of Ovid’s titles (v. infra) to credit as a critic that he did see the value of Lucretius, and expressed it in the well-known couplNote 10 · It has not seemed necessary to go through the literary passages of the Orations, though some, the Pro Archia especially, are not infertile iNote 11 · Here, however, as elsewhere, the fatally parasitic character of the whole literature comes in. There is little doubt (see Nettleship, op. ciNote 14 · Poet. Lat. Min. (Baehrens), vi. 139-266. Our greatest English Latinists recently have been singularly unkind to this poet. Munro made what INote 15 · Mr Nettleship justly and, considering his enthusiasm for Horace generously contrasts the “comprehensive sympathy” of Ovid (Am., i. 15-19, TrNote 23 · See Suas., vi. Pollio, a great friend of Antony, was both an orator of high reputation and a very severe critic. It was he, it should be remNote 24 · Insolenti Græciæ (op. cit., p. 59). I hope it may be hardly necessary to quote certain lines, “To the memory of my beloved Master, William SNote 27 · Varro was happier in the phrase filo et facetia sermonis applied to Plautus: and he seems to have been genuinely devoted to the dramatist whNote 5 · Umbraticus doctor, which Ben Jonson Englishes directly as “umbratical doctors” in the Discoveries, and De Quincey rather hardily converts toNote 10 · Ed. cit., i. 209. If Seneca be suspected of possible insincerity, Marcus Aurelius cannot be. Yet the estimable Emperor, who had earlier (i. Note 12 · In two cases at least. And Quintilian might have known Persius, as he was in Rome before 59 A.D., while Persius did not die till 62.Note 14 · It has been questioned whether Persius did object to ærumna, or to any of these words, as words. I should say that the coincidence in QuintiNote 17 · With its compliment to Cæsius Bassus and his marem strepitum fidis Latinæ.Note 20 · I think intactam insinuates this. But it may only mean that the play was produced “for the first time on any stage,” though this seems feeblNote 39 · Nomen cum violis rosisque natum. Wherefore Ben Jonson took it for the heroine of this most beautiful thing, The Sad Shepherd.Note 40 · My friend Professor Hardie rather demurs to the idea of “common” syllables being commoner in Greek than in Latin, save possibly in proper naNote 43 · V. the only remaining fragment in Baehrens, Poet. Lat. Min., vi. 370. The satirical piece, usually printed with Juvenal and assigned to a SuNote 44 · It ought, however, perhaps to be added that these include a considerable batch of inscription-distichs for presents of books from Homer and Note 51 · III. 21, p. 65.Note 54 · ληκύθους. The word, whether from the use of its diminutive in the Frogs or not, seems to have become a stock metaphor for rhetorical tropes.Note 55 · If the reader is in ignorance of this worthy, he can cure his disease by any one of three pleasant medicines—Boswell, Horace Walpole, and MrNote 58 · This letter contains an interesting mot of Aquilius Regulus, the brilliant and questionable orator-informer, of whom Pliny frequently speaksNote 63 · This, of course, is the old invidious distinction between tragedy and comedy revived in other material. Cf. the curious passage in Tacitus (Note 65 · Diserti, used here, as disertior is lower, with the slightly invidious sense which often attaches to the word, just as it does to the EnglisNote 70 · I say this in some fear and trembling, with such an authority as the late Mr Nettleship against me. But I have been accustomed for a good maNote 73 · Those who have an accurate memory of M. Taine’s English Literature and of his English Notes will not object to this apparent impossibility.Note 74 · I am not sure that I should have given any place here to Cornelius Fronto, if his ticket of admission had not been (rather contumeliously) cNote 10 · Some moderns (notably Campbell in his Philosophy of Rhetoric) have followed Quintilian in this use of the word for “style.” But the acceptedNote 11 · The use of undignified expression, as “a wart of stone” on a mountain.Note 12 · Not in its usual equivalence with litotes, but in the sense of cursory and elliptic reference.Note 13 · Affected excess in any direction, whether ornate or plain.Note 30 · ὑπὲρ ἥμισυ Κᾶρες ἐφάνησαν. Spalding, I think, detected Galliambic cadence here, regarding the first foot as an anapæst and the rest as two tNote 31 · V. supra, pp. 20, 85. Perhaps no single “windfall of the Muses” would be so great a gain to literary criticism, in respect of Greek, as the Note 38 · Of Cornelius Severus, a friend of Ovid, who wrote on the Sicilian war, and of whom Quintilian thinks that, had he lived, he might have been Note 42 · X. iii. 22-24. It is natural to compare this with the remarks of Aper and Maternus in the Dialogus.Note 44 · Théry, op. cit., i. 207. I venture to think that Mr Nettleship also is not quite just to Quintilian.Note 2 · Cf. the amusing chapter (vi. 17) in which he tells with innocent pride how he overwhelmed quempiam græculum with apt citations on the word oNote 3 · This Antonius Julianus, from another notice (xx. 9), seems to have been a person of slightly florid but by no means bad taste. For Gellius tNote 5 · “Hobbledehoyish, and got up with inserted expletives.” Ferrumen, a post-classical word, is almost exactly the French cheville.Note 19 · Poetæ Latini Minores, ed. Baehrens, vol. iv. Sidonius Apollinaris, who comes between Ausonius and the Anthology, and has much concern for usNote 35 · I use the Delphin edition, but I believe the standards are those of Obbarius (Tubingen, 1845) or Dressel (Leipsic, 1860). A good deal of worNote 1 · As at the beginning of Bk. ii. I had less obligation to acknowledge than at that of Bk. i., so here also the diminution continues. On the geNote 6 · This very agreeable Latin verse debate on the merits of knights and clerks as lovers, which had so long a popularity that it was paraphrasedNote 9 · Virgil was of course popular everywhere. But, as we have seen, he was specially popular in Roman Africa, because of the local patriotism (thNote 10 · Peacock, in Gryll Grange. The utterance is of course dramatic, not direct, but the character in whose mouth it is put obviously expresses thNote 14 · In a note to his account (ch. xxxvi.) of the Emperor Avitus, the father-in-law of our poet and epistoler.Note 22 · Commaticus. This word, originally employed of the alternate threnos of personage and chorus in Tragedy, passed, in rhetorical use, to the siNote 27 · No doubt Q. Remmius Palæmon, a very famous, very arrogant, and very immoral grammarian and schoolmaster, who flourished from Tiberius to ClaNote 38 · I use the agreeable Variorum edition, Leyden, 1671. No apology, I think, is needed in this instance for not making my own translations, but Note 60 · Aldhelm, between the two, wrote on metre, and is a considerable and characteristic writer for his time, but needs no detailed treatment hereNote 63 · Perhaps this is not so odd as it looks. Excerpta or scholia are, individually, scraps; “homilies,” or essays, are only parts of a book: tomiNote 70 · Libris centimetrorum simplicibus examinata. “Centimeter” is “the poet who employs a hundred metres,” or the critic who discusses them. SidonNote 73 · For the understanding reader there is perhaps no subdivision of literature more constantly delectable and refreshing than the Latin hymns ofNote 76 · Reliquiæ Antiquæ, by T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell, 2 vols., London, 1845. P. Leyser, Historia Poetarum et Poematum Medii Ævi, Halle, 1721. G.Note 83 · This remarkable twelfth-century poem—v. infra, note, p. 414, an allegorical world-pilgrimage with special reference to student sojourn at PaNote 84 · Physiologus is of course the famous piece of Thetbaldus, the original—mediate or immediate—of all the vernacular Bestiaries. “Paraclitus” LeNote 89 · Three other poems of the twelfth or early thirteenth century (referred to above) are more original, two of them at least are more amusing, aNote 90 · If to this peculiarity I seem to refer too often, let me close this chapter with a sentence from one who loved the Middle Ages as well as anNote 1 · The choice between Eloquentia and Eloquium lies with the taste and fancy of the chooser. The first word occurs first in the treatise itself.Note 2 · Coleridge, I think, refers to it; but with no adequate recognition.Note 9 · Arturi regis ambages pulcerrimæ. This observation is not quite negligible in the endless debate about the priority of verse or prose in thesNote 18 · Frondiferos humeros Apennini—a more affectionate if less picturesque touch than Mr Ruskin’s “angry Apennine” and Mr Browning’s “wind-swept gNote 19 · Hildebrand of Padua is excepted, as Nitentem divertere a materno et ad curiale vulgare intendere. Two sonnets of his are said to be now extaNote 29 · It is thought that Petrarch may have known the German thirteenth-century version in Latin.Note 39 · Original, tenth and last of Latin Epistles, ed. Moore, p. 414. Those who wish for an English translation will find one in the Appendix to MiNote 46 · I have not thought it necessary to devote any space to the consideration of the relations of Scholastic Philosophy to Criticism. To search tNote 4 · Not Rebecca and Rowena. I think it barely desirable to insert this note because quite recently a person, not demonstrably insane, called thaNote 9 · Cléomadès (which is possibly not unconnected with Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale) whoso will may know and (if he be of my mind) rejoice in (ed. VanNote 10 · Often printed: the best edition of the original Latin is, I believe, that (with French version) of M. Cocheris (Paris, 1856). The late ProfeNote 12 · My friend, Mr W. J. Courthope, in the third chapter of his Life of Pope (Pope’s Works, ed. Elwin and Courthope, v. 50: London, 1889.)Note 13 · Had he known Maximus Tyrius (v. supra, p. 117), he might almost have borrowed the very words of that writer. But in the astonishingly long lNote 18 · Mr Courthope must, I should think, have overlooked this passage when he denied (denied (loc. cit.) that Boccaccio and other mediæval writersNote 20 · Considerations of something the same kind may partly excuse a further omission—which I know will be deplored by some, and which I daresay wiNote 21 · If, as is still possible, and most probably can never be disproved, Walter Map fashioned the perfect Arthur stories, by dint of combining th
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