Note 30 — Chapter VIII · RHETORIC IN ANCIENT CRITICISM OF POETIC
Reading edition
See Nettleship, Lectures and Essays, Second Series, page 49 (on Dionysius of Halicarnassus). For the pictorial habit of much ancient description see above, page 217, on Ovid, and compare Croiset, Hist. de la litt. grecque, V. pages 771 and following.