Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition
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DE COMPOSITIONE VERBORVM
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, NOTES
GLOSSARY, AND APPENDICES
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Litt.D. (Cambridge), Hon. Ll.D. (St. Andrews)
PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
FORMERLY FELLOW OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
EDITOR OF ‘DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS: THE THREE LITERARY LETTERS,’ ETC.
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Tantum series iuncturaque pollet, Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris.
Horace Ars Poetica 242, 243.
See Dionysius Homer’s thoughts refine, And call new beauties forth from every line.
Pope Essay on Criticism 665, 666.