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172. Arber, p. 95.

173. The pseudo-Demetrius, author of the De elecutione.

174. P. 316.

175. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, pp. 541-2.

176. M. Schwab, op. cit.

177. Poetische Theorien in der italienischen Frührenaissance (Berlin, 1900), p. 88.

178. Defense, in Smith, I, 196-197.

179. Vossius, De artis poeticae natura, II, 3-4.

180. Poetics, I, 2.