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[270] _The Women at the Feast of Bacchus_, quoted by Emile Egger, _L'Histoire de la Critique chez les Grecs_ (Paris, 1886), p. 74.

[271] _Protagoras_, 325-326, Jowett's translation.

[272] _Republic_, 596-598.

[273] _Ibid._, 605-606.

[274] _Ibid._, 607

[275] _Laws_, 663.

[276] _Poetics_, IV, 2.

[277] _Ibid._, VI, 15.

[278] _Ibid._, VII.

[279] _Ibid._, IX, 7.

[280] _Ibid._, XIII. Cf. also XXVI.

[281] _Ibid._, XXIV.

[282] _Ibid._, XXVI.

[283] _Politics_, V, v.

[284] _Poetics_, VI. (Butcher). Cf. Butcher's _Aristotle's Theory of Fine Art_, Chapter VI, for a full discussion of katharsis.

[285] _Politics_, V, vii.

[286] _Poetics_, XIII.

[287] _Panegyric_, -- 159.

[288] _Symposium_, III, 5.

[289] _Geography_, I, ii, 3. Trans, by H. C. Hamilton (Bohn ed, London, 1854), 1, 24-25.

[290] _De audiendis poetis_, trans, by F.M. Padelford under the t.i.tle _Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry_ (New York, 1902), I. Cf. also Julian, _Epistle_ 42.

[291] _Ibid._

[292] _Ibid._ XIV. Cf. Harrington in Smith's _Eliz. Crit. Essays_, II, 197-198.

[293] _Ibid._ XII. Cf. Chemnicensis, _Canons_, LII, in Smith, I, 421.

[294] _Ibid._, IV. Cf. Aristotle, _Rhetoric_, II, xx.

[295] _Ibid._, III.

[296]

Aut prodesse volunt, aut delectare poetae Aut simul et jucunda et idonea dicere vitae

Centuriae seniorum agitant expertia frugis; Celsi praetereunt austera poemata Rhamnes: Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, Lectorem delectando, periterque monendo.

Hic meret aera liber Sosiis; hic et mare transit, Et longum noto scriptori prorogat aevum.

_Ad Pisonem_, 333-334, 342-346.

[297] _Epistles_, II, i, 11. 126 ff. Conington's trans.

[298] _Metamorphoses_, X, 2.

[299] _De rerum natura_, I, 936-950.

[300] _Phaedrus_. See also _Republic_, II.

[301] _How to Study Poetry_, IV.

[302] Cf. Cicero, _De nat. deor._ i, 15-38 ff., and Hatch, _Hibbert Lectures_, 1888, Ch. III.

[303] A. Schlemm, _De fontibus Plutarchi commentationum De aud. poet._ (Gottingen, 1893), pp. 32-36.

[304] "Iam c.u.m confluxerunt plures continuae tralationes, alia plane fit oratio; itaque genus hoc Graeci appellant ????????a? nomine recte genere melius ille qui ista omnia tralationes vocat." _Orator_, 94. Cf. _Ad.

Att._ ii, 20, 3.

[305] Quintilian, VIII, vi, 44. Isidore, _Etym._ I, x.x.xvii, 22.

[306] _De doctrina christiana_ (397), III, 29, 40.

[307] _Confessions_ (Watts's trans.), III. vi., Lionardo Bruni, _De studiis et literis_ (1405), uses the same argument to defend poetry.

[308] Terence, _Eun._ 585-589, shows a young man justifying his vices on this ground.

[309] _Poetics_, IX.

[310] _Literary Criticism_, p. 18.

[311] _Rhet._ II, xxi.

[312] _Rhetoric_, II, xx. (Weldon's translation).

[313] _De inst. orat._ V, xi, 6, 19.