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| | Greek 701: Criticism |
 | | (Isokrates) seems to me to be better, as regards his nature, than to be compared with the speeches associated with Lysias and, what's more, to be tempered with a nobler character. |
 | | Isokrates avoids the placing together of vowels as ruining the joinings and the smoothness of the sounds, and he attempts to close his thoughts round in a period and a circle very rhythmical and not far distant from poetic meter, and he is more suitable for reading than for actual use. |
 | | In Isokrates himself, to be sure, there flourished many other graces which tend to hide this deformity, but in those who came after him, because their other successes were lesser, this fault is more apparent. |
| web.gc.cuny.edu /dept/class/isok.htm (1988 words) |
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