[46] The Sophistical element is very prominent, especially in the tetralogies. Like Tisias he makes great use of arguments from probability.
[47] De comp. verborum, ch. 22.
[48] Such words are, for instance, ἀνατροπεύς; μήνιμα and ἀλιτήριος, separately, as μήνιμα ἀκέσασθαι, δεινοὺς ἀλιτηρίους ἕξομεν, or together, μήνιμα τῶν ἀλιτηρίων προστρίψομαι; θεία κηλίς, γεγωνεῖν, ὀπτήρ, ἀείμνηστος.
[49] Rare but not poetical words are, e.g. ὑπῆρκτο, χωροφιλεῖν, καταδοχθείς, ἐπίδοξος, and, from lost Speeches, μοιρολογχεῖν, τριβωνεύεσθαι, ἀστοργία, and many others quoted by lexicographers for their peculiarity.
[50] E.g. οἴδαμεν, ᾔδεις, and the remarkable εἰκότερον.
[51] Vide supra, p. [16]. A striking example of the verbal periphrasis is in Antiphon, Herodes, § 94: νῦν μὲν οὖν γνωρισταὶ γίνεσθε τῆς δίκης, τότε δὲ δικασταὶ τῶν μαρτύρων· νῦν μέν δοξασταί, τότε δὲ κριταὶ τῶν ἀληθῶν.
[52] Rhet., iii. 9. 1-2.
[53] Rhet., iii. 9. 3: λέξιν ἔχουσαν ἀρχὴν καὶ τελευτὴν αὐτὴν καθ’ αὐτὴν καὶ μέγεθος εὐσύνοπτον. Ibid., 5: εὐανάπνευστος.
[54] Herod., i. 16-17.
[55] Id., iii. 80-81.