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But I should like
to ask whether Isocrates spoke in the Attic style.
For there is no author less like Lysias. They will
answer in the negative. And yet it is to the school
of Isocrates that we owe the greatest orators. Let
us look for something closer. Is Hyperides
Attic? Yes, they reply, but of an over-sensuous
character. I pass by a number of orators, such as
Lyucrgus and Aristogeiton and their predecessors
[p. 463]
Isaeus and Antiphon; for though they have a certain
generic resemblance, they may be said to differ in
species.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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