[p. 427] by those words chosen his successor, not his wine. This was Theophrastus, from Lesbos, a man equally noted for the fineness of his eloquence and of his life. And when, not long after this, Aristotle died, 1 they accordingly all became followers of Theophrastus.
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[6arg] The term which the early Latins used for the Greek word προσῳδίαι; also that the term barbarismus was used neither by the early Romans nor by the people of Attica.WHAT the Greeks call προσῳδίαι, or “tones,” 2 our early scholars called now notae vocum, or “marks of tone,” now moderamenta, or “guides,” now accenticulae, or “accents,” and now voculationes, or “intonations.” But the fault which we designate when we say now that anyone speaks barbare, or “outlandishly,” they did not call “outlandish” but “rustic,” and they said that those speaking with that fault spoke “in a countrified manner” (rustice). Publius Nigidius, in his Grammatical Notes 3 says: “Speech becomes rustic, if you misplace the aspirates.” 4 Whether therefore those who before the time of the deified Augustus expressed themselves purely and properly used the word barbarismus (outlandishness), which is now common, I for my part have not yet been able to discover.
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[7arg] That Homer in his poems and Herodotus in his Histories spoke differently of the nature of the lion.HERODOTUS, in the third book of his Histories, has left the statement that lionesses give birth but once during their whole life, and at that one birth that