Longinus, On the Sublime

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  • TrueMacedonian
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 3810

    Longinus, On the Sublime

    XVIII
    On the Rhetorical Question, and Imaginary Colloquies.

    In the next place, how are we to treat all the machinery of feigned conversations and questionings ? Does it not by its very nature quicken the language into far more life and energy? For example, "What! will ye run about asking one another, Is there any news ? Why, what news could there be more novel than this, of a Macedonian vanquishing Hellas? Is Philip dead ? No, by heaven, but he is sick. What difference will it make to you ? seeing that, if anything happened to him, ye will make yourselves another Philip." And again, "Let us sail for Macedonia. Prithee where shall we come to anchor? Why, the war itself will find out the rotten points in Philip's dominions.


    Longinus On the sublime By Longinus, translated by William Rhys Roberts pages 75-76.
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  • TrueMacedonian
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 3810

    #2
    Info on Longinus; http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...47517/Longinus

    also called Dionysius Longinus or Pseudo-Longinus

    flourished 1st century ad

    name sometimes assigned to the author of On the Sublime (Greek Peri Hypsous), one of the great seminal works of literary criticism. The earliest surviving manuscript, from the 10th century, first printed in 1554, ascribes it to Dionysius Longinus. Later it was noticed that the index to the manuscript read “Dionysius or Longinus.” The problem of authorship embroiled scholars for centuries, attempts being made to identify him with Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cassius Longinus, Plutarch, and others.
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    • Soldier of Macedon
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2008
      • 13670

      #3
      Interesting text TM, is that the only reference to Phillip and Macedonia made by Longinius?
      In the name of the blood and the sun, the dagger and the gun, Christ protect this soldier, a lion and a Macedonian.

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