CHAPTER VI.

BYZANTINE CRITICISM.

Photius[175]
Detailed examination of the Bibliotheca[177]
Importance of its position as a body of critical judgment[183]
Tzetzes[187]
John the Siceliote[187]
INTERCHAPTER I.[191]

BOOK II.

LATIN CRITICISM.

CHAPTER I.

BEFORE QUINTILIAN—CICERO, HORACE, SENECA THE ELDER, VARRO.

The conditions of Latin criticism[211]
Cicero[213]
His attitude to Lucretius[214]
His Rhetorical works[217]
His Critical Vocabulary[219]
Horace[221]
The Ad Pisones[221]
Its desultoriness[224]
And arbitrary conventionality[225]
Its compensations: Brilliancy[225]
Typical spirit[226]