Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition / Being the Greek Text of the De Compositione Verborum

by of Halicarnassus Dionysius

δόξα. [134] 4. Opinion, personal judgment. Lat. opinio. Opposed to ἐπιστήμη.

δύναμις. [72] 25, 26, [130] 22, 23, [134] 17, [136] 20, etc. Power, faculty, function. Lat. potentia, facultas. Used, more than once in this treatise, of ‘phonetic value’ or ‘effect.’ Fr. valeur. In [266] 7 τῆς ἑαυτοῦ δυνάμεως denotes ‘mental powers,’ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ διανοίας being used in the parallel passage of de Demosth. c. 51.

δυσειδής. [144] 4. Ungraceful. Lat. deformis.

δυσέκφορος. [132] 2, [162] 5, 16, [232] 15. Hard to pronounce. Lat. difficilis pronuntiatu. Cp. δυσεκφόρητος in [220] 13.

δυσηχής. [162] 15. Ill-sounding. Lat. ingratus auditu. [According to Sauppe’s conjecture on p. 163 n.: cp. δυσηχές [144] 4, as given by PMV.]

δυσπερίληπτος. [206] 23. Not easily included. Lat. qui facile includi nequit.

δυσχέρεια. [134] 24, [168] 3. Offensiveness. Lat. molestia.

δυσωπεῖσθαι. [134] 21. To be shy of. Lat. prae pudore reformidare. The active voice is found in de Lys. c. 11.

Δώριος. [196] 1. Dorian. Lat. Dorius, Doricus. Cp. Monro’s Modes of Ancient Greek Music, passim.