Isocrates, Evagoras, section 9

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[9] since they can represent the gods as associating with men, conversing with and aiding in battle whomsoever they please, and they can treat of these subjects not only in conventional expressions, but in words now exotic, now newly coined, and now in figures of speech, neglecting none, but using every kind with which to embroider their poesy.¹

1 With this passage compare Aristot. Poet. 1457b.

Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 34
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE PARTICIPLE
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
Cross-references in notes from this page (1):
- Aristotle, Poetics, 1457b
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (7):
- LSJ, διαποικίλλω
- LSJ, κόσμος
- LSJ, μεταφορ-ά
- LSJ, ὄνομα
- LSJ, οἷος
- LSJ, ποικ-ίλλω
- LSJ, τάσσω

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