On Literary Composition
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
BEING THE GREEK TEXT OF THE
DE COMPOSITIONE VERBORVM
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, NOTES
GLOSSARY, AND APPENDICES
BY
W. RHYS ROBERTS
Litt.D. (Cambridge), Hon. Ll.D. (St. Andrews)
PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
FORMERLY FELLOW OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
EDITOR OF ‘DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS: THE THREE LITERARY LETTERS,’ ETC.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1910
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NATHAN BODINGTON
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EDITOR COLLEGA AMICVS
Tantum series iuncturaque pollet,
Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris.
Horace Ars Poetica 242, 243.
See Dionysius Homer’s thoughts refine,
And call new beauties forth from every line.
Pope Essay on Criticism 665, 666.
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ ΑΛΙΚΑΡΝΑΣΕΩΣ
- GLOSSARY
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B
- APPENDIX C
- Footnotes
- A. INDEX OF PASSAGES QUOTED IN THE DE COMPOSITIONE
- B. INDEX OF NAMES AND MATTERS
