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[74] _Rhet._, III, 1.

[75] The six elements are Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Spectacle, and Song. _Poetics_, VI, 7 and 16.

[76] Butcher, _op. cit._, pp. 339-343.

[77] _Poetics_, VI, 16, and XIX, 1-2.

[78] _De inst. orat._, X, i, 46-51.

[79] _De inventione_, I, xxiii, 33.

[80] _Die antike kunstprosa_ (Leipzig, 1898), p. 884, note 3.

[81] See above, p. 17.

[82] _De optimo genere oratorum_, I, 3; _Orator_, 69; _De oratore_, II, 28.

[83] _De inst. orat._, VI, ii, 25-36.

[84] _Poetics_, XVII, 2.

[85] Arist. _Rhet._, III. xi; Dionysius of Halicarna.s.sus, _De Lysia_, 7; Quintilian, VIII, iii, 62.

[86] _Rhetoric_, III, i.

[87] _Op. cit._, pp. 883-884.

[88] La Rue Van Hook, "Alcidamas _versus_ Isocrates," _Cla.s.sical Weekly_, XII (Jan. 20, 1919), p. 90. Professor Van Hook here presents the only English translation of Alcidamas, _On the Sophists_. Isocrates made his reply in his speech _On the Antidosis_.

[89] _Rhetoric_, III, ii.

[90] _Ibid._, III, viii.

[91] _Orator_, 66-68.

[92] _De oratore_, I, 70.

[93] "Verba prope poetarum," _ibid._, I, 128.

[94] "Id primum in poetis cerni licet, quibus est proxima cognatio c.u.m oratoribus." _De orat._, III, 27. cf. also I, 70.

[95] Xenophon, _Banquet_, II, 11-14.

[96] _Die antike kunstprosa_, pp. 75-79.

[97] _De compositione verborum_, XXV-XXVI.

[98] Seneque le rheteur, _Controverses et suasoires_, ed. Henri Bornecque (Paris). Introduction pp. 20 ff.

[99] _Ibid._

[100] _Op. cit._ vol. II, p. 5.

[101] _Dialogus_, 20.

[102] _Op. cit._, Introd. p. 23.

[103] Dionysius of Halicarna.s.sus, _De comp. verb._, XXIII.

[104] Hardie, _Lectures_, VII, p. 281.

[105] _Quomodo historia conscribenda sit_, Sec. 8. Trans, of Lucian by H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler (Oxford, 4 vols., 1905).

[106] Id quoque vitandum, in quo magna pars errat, ne in oratione poetas et historicos, in illis operibus oratores aut declamatores imitandos putemus. _De inst. orat_, X, ii, 21.

[107] Virgilius orator an poeta? quoted by Karl Vossler, _Poetische Theorien in der italienischen Fruhrenaissance_. (Berlin, 1900) p. 42, note 2.

[108] _Etymologiae_, II.

[109] P. Abelson, _The Seven Liberal Arts_ (New York, 1906), p. 60, ff.

[110] _Poetria magistri Johannis anglici de arte prosayca metrica et rithmica_, ed. by G. Mari, _Romanische Forschungen_ (1902), XIII, p. 883 ff.

[111] _Ibid._, p. 894.

[112] _Ibid._, p. 897.

[113] Cf. G. L. Hendrickson, "The Origin and Meaning of the Ancient Characters of Style," _Am. Jour. of Phil._ (1905), xxvi, p. 249.

[114] Cf. the _auctor ad Her._, I, 4, who gives them as exordium, narratio, divisio, confirmatio, confutatio, conclusio.

[115] _Ibid._, p. 918.

[116] III, 3.

[117] "Rhetorica, kleit unser rede mit varwe schone." Ed. by H. Ruckert, _Bibl. der Deutsch. Lit._, Vol. 30, 1. 8924.

[118] Caius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius (430-488) can be consulted in a modern ed. by Paulus Mohr (Leipzig, 1895).

[119] Doctrina dell' ornato parlare." Woodward, _Educ. in the Ren._ p. 75.

[120] _Chron. Troy_ (1412-20), Prol. 57.

[121] I am indebted to my friend Dr. Mark Van Doren for the transcript which I am here publis.h.i.+ng.

[122] _Mor. Fab._ Prol. 3. (c. 1580).

[123] _Poems_, LXV, 10 (1500-20).