Phrygian mode196
Phylarchus94
Pindar49,194,214ff. See also under Index A
Plato14,19,20,21,22,23,26,29,31,33,34,139,180,182,196,248,249,264ff.,passim. See also under Index A
Pliny the Younger229
Plural106,107
Plutarch67,187,264,299,326,330,332
Poetry(in relation to prose)33-39,250ff., etc.
Polybius51,52,94,296
Pope, Alexandervii(Preface),202,205,324
Porson, Richard14,146
Preposition71,319
Pronoun70,102,288
Pronunciation43-46,140ff.,348-51,passim
Propertius188
‘Propriety’39,198ff.,318,319,passim
Prose(in relation to poetry)33-39,250ff.,287(ἄμετρος),309(λόγος), etc.
Prosodiacs86
Psaon94
Punctuation306,340
Puttenham299
Pyrrhic168
Quantity, effect of syllabic quantity in prose29
Quintilian11,15,18,19,23,26,27,28,30,34,38,46,47,53,70,71,81,89,93,98,145,152,168,195,203,248,250,265,266,300,301,305,306,315-21,325,328,330,332,336,passim
Quotations in the C.V.49-56. See also Index A
Racine118,157,205,270
Reading(learning to read)268,269
Renan, Ernest31
‘Rhetor Graecus’57,138
Rhetorica ad Alexandrumxi(Preface),26,75,313,336
Rhetorical Handbooks270,282,329
Rhyme or jingle64,65,315
Rhythm33-39,168ff.,176ff.,320
Rhythmici154,172
Rich, Barnaby82
Rousseau211
Rufus Metiliusxii(Preface),1,66
Ruskin37
Sallust38,180,225
San148,149
Sapphovii-viii (Preface),49,194,236ff.,258. See also Index A
Scales, musical194
Schema Pindaricum217
Schleiermacher, Friedrich343
Scholia(to Homer and other authors)76,132,155,158,170,188,191,229,274,277,288,333, etc.
Semivowels138ff.,302
Sextus Empiricus139
Shakespeare44,81,112,135,147,161,321
Sheridan250
Sigmatism146,147
Simonidesvii-viii (Preface),49,236,278ff.
Simplicity of diction illustrated and commended75-85,134-37
Smith, Sir Thomas45,46,141
Smooth composition or harmony232ff.,293
Socrates120,160
Solecism190
Sophist184,264,321
Sophocles248,249,337. See also Index A
Sotades88,328
Sound an echo to the sense156ff.,200ff.
Sources of the C.V.47-49
Spondee170,322
Stesichorus194,195,248
Stevenson, Robert Louis32,40
Stoics48,71,94-97,104
Strabo55,285,290
Strophe194etc.,323
Styles of composition208ff.
Substance and Formviii(Preface); cp. Demetr. pp.34ff.
Suidas237,296
Summary of the C.V.1-9
‘Suspense’13
Swinburne, Algernon Charles271,325
Syllables150ff.,324
Synaloepha108etc.,325
Tacitus316
Taste132,134,304
‘Tautology’240,328
Taylor, Jeremy303
Telestes196,197
Tennyson86,190,271,278
Tense108,333
Terence101,275
Tetrameters87,329
Text of the C.V.x(Preface),56-59,passim
Thelwall, John147
Theocritus281
Theodectes47,71
Theophrastus34,37,48,164,165,193,305, etc.
Theopompus29,236,237
Thucydides13,16,17,19,20,21,23,33,34,120,178,214,224ff.,335-7,passim. See also Index A
Timotheus175,196,197
Title of the C.V.10,326
Tragic poets236,248,329
Tribrach170. See also under ‘Choree,’ p.354supra
Trimeter258,329
Trisyllable170,329
Trochee170,330
Types of style208ff.
Usage as the sovereign arbiter102
Variety29,39,192ff.,310
Vedic Sanskrit42
Verbs71,98-100,108,320
Vigny, Alfred de213
Virgil19,21,156,157,164,173,204,327, etc.
Vowels138ff.,332
Welsh language31
Wilson, Thomas[of Eton and King’s College, Cambridge; earliest translator of any part of Demosthenes into English]326
Wordsworthviii(Preface),79,271
Xenophon14,19,23,120
Zeta, pronunciation of44,45
THE END
Printed byR. & R. Clark, Limited,Edinburgh.
Cambridge University Press.
By Professor W. RHYS ROBERTS.
The following contributions made to Greek literary and literary-historical study by Dr. Roberts are published at the Cambridge University Press. The volumes are arranged in the order of their original appearance.
THE ANCIENT BOEOTIANS: their Character and Culture, and their Reputation. With a Map, a Table of Dates, and a List of Authorities. Demy 8vo. 5s.
STUDY OF GREEK.A Chapter in Frederic Spencer’sChapters on the Aims and Practice of Teaching. Third Impression, 1903. Crown 8vo. 6s.
LONGINUS ON THE SUBLIME.The Greek Text edited after the Paris Manuscript, with Translation, Facsimiles, and Appendices (Textual, Linguistic, Literary, and Bibliographical). Second Edition, 1907. Demy 8vo. 9s.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS: The Three Literary Letters.The Greek Text edited with Translation, Facsimile, Notes, Glossary of Rhetorical Terms, Bibliography, and Introductory Essay on Dionysius as a Literary Critic. Demy 8vo. 9s.
DEMETRIUS ON STYLE.The Greek Text of Demetriusde Elocutione. Edited after the Paris Manuscript, with Translation, Facsimiles, Glossary, etc., and Introductory Essay on the Greek Study of Prose Style. Demy 8vo. 9s. net.
EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS OFDEMETRIUS ON STYLE.
ProfessorB. L. Gildersleevein theAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY.—“It is to me a welcome sign of the times that Mr. Roberts has attracted so much attention and gained so much reputation by his admirable editions ofLonginus on the Sublimeand ofThe Three Literary Letters of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, to which he has now addedDemetrius on Style.... As for Demetrius, nothing could be more timely than the revival of his admirable manual.... No wonder that one hails with satisfaction the prospect of a new edition of theDe Compositioneby so competent a hand as Mr. Roberts, if indeed we may construe his suggestion as a promise.”
ATHENÆUM.—“We have to congratulate Professor Roberts on the completion of another preliminary study for his projected work on ‘Ancient Literary Criticism,’ which is a worthy companion to hisLonginusandThe Three Literary Letters of Dionysius.... These three books are indispensable to the student of Greek literature.... In the translation Professor Roberts seems to have improved on his former versions; this is more easy and effective.”
TIMES.—“Dr. Roberts has introduced to English readers some choice literary morsels. HisLonginus on the Sublime, the first of the ancient works on literary criticism which he edited—we might almost say, to our shame, rescued from oblivion—is a most able and inspiring book....Demetrius on Styleis edited equally well. The translation, indeed, is even better; idiomatic and pleasant to read, it is often most happy, and there are very few passages where we should differ in our rendering of the Greek.”
SPECTATOR.—“Dr. Roberts is to be congratulated upon the accomplishment of a worthy task. His edition of the famous treatise known asDemetrius on Styleis a credit to our English learning. The editor is not merely a scholar, he is a man of letters as well; and in his notes he has applied the maxims of the ancient Greek to the literature of to-day with the utmost skill. Indeed, though Greek lies at this moment under a cloud of suspicion, we can none the less recommend this work without diffidence or fear, since no English writer can study Dr. Roberts’s translation and notes without purging his own composition of faults innumerable.”
GUARDIAN.—“Dr. Rhys Roberts here gives us a third instalment of his work on the Greek literary critics, and the further he proceeds the greater becomes the benefit that he is conferring on classical scholars. It is much to have made the masterpieces of the later Greek criticism generally accessible, and especially to have rescued Dionysius of Halicarnassus from a neglect and contempt that were wholly undeserved, to have given him new utterance, to have shown that even for moderns his precepts are not obsolete. Nor is the chorus of approval with which Dr. Roberts’s work has been received, both at home and abroad, any louder than is warranted. His own style and taste are above reproach, and his learning is abundant.”
WESTMINSTER REVIEW.—“Dr. W. Rhys Roberts has taken for his province the whole subject of Greek literary criticism. In 1899 appeared his scholarly and exhaustive edition ofLonginus on the Sublime, which was followed, two years later, by an admirable edition ofThe Three Literary Letters of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. He has now laid English scholarship under a further obligation by his even more admirable edition ofDemetrius on Style. Each of these three texts is accompanied by a translation at once accurate, terse, lucid, and idiomatic.”
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.—“We make no doubt that Professor Roberts’s earlier books—Longinus on the SublimeandThe Three Literary Letters of Dionysius—are known to those of our readers who are serious students of Greek. We believe they have done a good deal already to restore ancient criticism to the place which it used to hold. The present volume is a worthy companion to the other two.”
ProfessorR. Y. TyrrellinHERMATHENA.—“This edition is of wide scope and excellent design. It includes an Essay on Greek Prose Style, a full summary of the treatise itself, and a careful treatment of the difficult questions concerning its date and authorship. The fact that this is the first English text and the first English translation of a very valuable and interesting work gives it an added importance, and opens up what will be a new field for many scholars.... The translation, which is exceedingly vigorous, elegant and ingenious, has one other signal merit: it never ‘hedges’: the translator never hides a doubt about the meaning under ambiguous language; he leaves no uncertainty about the meaning which he attaches to the text; and in the few places where we may venture to take a different view we feel that there is always something to be said for the version which we reject.... Dr. Roberts has a very keen eye and ear for literary beauty; and the treatise affords ample scope for the employment of his wide and various knowledge of modern literature.... TheDe Elocutioneis a treatise full of interesting and suggestive comment; and all lovers of literature owe their best thanks to Professor Roberts for the edition of it which he has put in their hands.”
The volume has also been favourably reviewed by the following Continental scholars: Dr.Ph. Weber(Neue Philologische Rundschau),M. Théodore Reinach(Revue des Études Grecques), ProfessorAmédée Hauvette(Revue Critique d’histoire et de littérature), ProfessorCh. Michel(Revue de l’Instruction publique en Belgique), and ProfessorGiovanni Setti(La Cultura).