1 αὑτὸν ταῖς Us.: αὐτὸν ταῖσ P: αὐτὸ ταῖς M: αὐταῖς V 3 ἀγωνιστὰς Sylburgius: δεινοῦσ αν ταγωνιστασ sic P: ἀνταγωνιστὰς etiam MV 4 γε Us.: τε P: om. MV 5 βουλομένοις PM: om. V || σπουδαῖαν εἶναι (sic) P: ἢ σπουδαῖα εἶναι MV 6 Διονυσίου αλικαρνα(σεως) πε(ρὶ) συνθέσεως ὀνομάτων: ~ litteris maiusculis subscripsit P
2. The training meant would consist chiefly in that general reading of Greek authors which is indicated in this treatise or in the de Imitatione, and in Quintilian’s Tenth Book: it would carry out the precept “vos exemplaria Graeca | nocturna versate manu, versate diurna.” Afterwards would follow the technical and systematic study of style or eloquence, regarded as a preparation for public life.
3. ἀγωνιστάς: cp. note on [268] 29 supra and Plato Phaedr. 269 D τὸ μὲν δύνασθαι, ὦ Φαῖδρε, ὥστε ἀγωνιστὴν τέλεον γενέσθαι, εἰκός—ἴσως δὲ καὶ ἀναγκαῖον—ἔχειν ὥσπερ τἆλλα· εἰ μέν σοι ὑπάρχει φύσει ῥητορικῷ εἶναι, ἔσῃ ῥήτωρ ἐλλόγιμος, προσλαβὼν ἐπιστήμην τε καὶ μελέτην, ὅτου δ’ ἂν ἐλλείπῃς τούτων, ταύτῃ ἀτελὴς ἔσῃ.
4. The best Greeks and Romans at all times believed in work, and in genius as including the capacity for taking pains. Compare (in addition to the passage of the Phaedrus) Soph. El. 945 ὅρα· πόνου τοι χωρὶς οὐδὲν εὐτυχεῖ: Eurip. Fragm. 432 τῷ γὰρ πονοῦντι χὠ θεὸς συλλαμβάνει: Aristoph. Ran. 1370 ἐπίπονοί γ’ οἱ δεξιοί: Cic. de Offic. i. 18. 60 “nec medici, nec imperatores, nec oratores, quamvis artis praecepta perceperint, quidquam magna laude dignum sine usu et exercitatione consequi possunt”: Quintil. Inst. Or. Prooem. § 27 “sicut et haec ipsa (bona ingenii) sine doctore perito, studio pertinaci, scribendi, legendi, dicendi multa et continua exercitatione per se nihil prosunt.” See also note on page [264] supra.
GLOSSARY
(Including Terms of Rhetoric, Grammar, Prosody, Music, Phonetics, and Literary Criticism)
In the Glossary, as in the Notes, the following abbreviations are used:—
Long. = ‘Longinus on the Sublime.’
D.H. = ‘Dionysius of Halicarnassus: the Three Literary Letters.’
Demetr. = ‘Demetrius on Style.’