[16] προφῆτις, Sext. Emp. adv. Gramm. 1. 279.
[17] Strabo, 1. 2. 3, οὐ ψυχαγωγίας χάριν δήπουθεν ψιλῆς ἀλλὰ σωφρονισμοῦ.
[18] Dio Chrys. Orat. xxxvi. vol. ii p. 51, ed. Dind.
[19] These are printed in Walz, Rhetores Græci, vol. i.: the account here followed is mainly that of the Progymnasmata of Theo of Smyrna (circ. A.D. 130). There is a letter of Dio Chrysostom, printed among his speeches, Orat. xvii. περὶ λόγον ἀσκήσεως, ed. Dind. i, 279, consisting of advice to a man who was beginning the study of Rhetoric late in life, which, without being a formal treatise, gives as good a view as could be found of the general course of training.
[20] Diss. 3. 23. 20.
[21] Philostr. V. S. 2. 21. 3, of Proclus.
[22] Lucian, Dial. Mort. 10. 10.
[23] Hermotim. 81.
[24] There is a good example of the former of these methods in Maximus of Tyre, Dissert. 33, where § 1 is part of a student’s essay, and the following sections are the professor’s comments; and of the latter in Epictetus, Diss. 1. 10. 8, where the student is said ἀναγνῶναι, legere, the professor ἐπαναγνῶναι, prælegere.
[25] Enchir. 49: see also Diss. 3. 21, quoted below, [p. 102].