Χαρακτῆρες
characters
Translated by David Whitehead27 Nov 2005Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
"[Characters] of expressive speeches [are] lofty, plain, [and] intermediate. Thucydides1 favoured the lofty, as suited to his own nature."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Χαρακτῆρες λόγων φραστικῶν ὑψηλός, ἰσχνός, μέσος. ὁ δὲ Θουκυδίδης τὸν ὑψηλὸν ἐζήλωσεν, ὡς πρόσφορον τῇ οἰκείᾳ φύσει.
Betacode
*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 (1)
- Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 39.
- 1See generally theta 414. ↩
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