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Headword: *xarakth=res
Adler number: chi,94
Translated headword: characters
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[Characters] of expressive speeches [are] lofty, plain, [and] intermediate. Thucydides[1] favoured the lofty, as suited to his own nature."
Greek Original:
*xarakth=res lo/gwn frastikw=n u(yhlo/s, i)sxno/s, me/sos. o( de\ *qoukudi/dhs to\n u(yhlo\n e)zh/lwsen, w(s pro/sforon th=| oi)kei/a| fu/sei.
Notes:
Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 39.
[1] See generally theta 414.
Keywords: biography; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 November 2005@10:32:48.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 27 November 2005@18:22:57.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 28 November 2005@03:42:38.
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