CHAPTER V.

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, PLUTARCH, LUCIAN, LONGINUS.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus 127 His works 128 The _Rhetoric_ 129 The _Composition_ 129 Censures and Commentaries on Orators, &c. 133 The minor works 134 The judgment of Thucydides 135 General critical value 136 Plutarch 137 The _Lives_ quite barren for us 138 The _Moralia_ at first sight promising 138 Examination of this promise 139 The “Education” 139 The Papers on “Reading” 140 The _Lives of the Orators_ 142 The _Malignity of Herodotus_ 142 The “Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander” 143 The _Roman Questions_ 144 The _Symposiacs_ 144 Lucian 146 The _How to write History_ 147 The _Lexiphanes_ 148

Other pieces: The _Prometheus Es_ 149 Works touching Rhetoric 150 His critical limitations 151 Longinus: the difficulties raised 152 “Sublimity” 153 Quality and contents of the treatise 154 Preliminary Retrospect 158 Detailed Criticism: The opening 159 The stricture on the _Orithyia_ 159 Frigidity 160 The “maidens in the eyes” 160 The canon “Quod semper” 161 The sources of sublimity 161 Longinus on Homer 162 On Sappho 163 “Amplification” 164 “Images” 165 The Figures 166 “Faultlessness” 168 Hyperboles 169 “Harmony” 169 The Conclusion 170 Modernity of the treatise 172 Or rather sempiternity 173