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| | Longinus, On the Sublime, tr. W. Rhys Roberts, at Peitho's Web |
 | | While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style. |
 | | Timaeus, however, has not left even this piece of frigidity to Xenophon, but clutches it as though it were hid treasure. |
 | | At all events, after saying of Agathocles that he abducted his cousin, who had been given in marriage to another man, from the midst of the nuptial rites, he asks, 'Who could have done this had he not had wantons, in place of maidens, in his eyes?' 6. |
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