Subject Index to Commentary

(Citations are to pages in this edition.)

Accumulation, see “Athroismos” Affectation, 27

Ages, of man, 43-44 Allegory, 55-56

as a figure of thought, 99 Amplification, see “Development” Anaphora, 47, l05, I 12-13

Aposiopesis, 47, 48, 104 Apostrophe, IOI Arrangement, 4, 193,205

Art, tychistic, 36

Artistic process, see “Poetry” Asianism, 93

Aside, as rhetorical device, 154 Assonance, in Gorgias of Leontini, 21 Asyndeton, 110, 112, 115

Athroismos, 123

Bible, 57

Burial, in Homer, 59

Cacophony, 214

Catena, 124

Character, see “Characterization” Characterization, 83, 166, I 71

Odyssey a poem of, 62 defined, 62

in Sophocles, 63

Climax, 123-24

Colloquial language, 150-51, 204-05

Colossus, 182-83

Comedy, 63

and sublimity, 204

of character or manners, 63 Commonplaces, 73-75

Comparative judgment, 30-31

Comparison, 76

of Cicero and Demosthenes, 76 Concealment, 189

of rhetorical devices, 4, 6

Conception, 147

Correctness, 159-60, 166

Corybantic, 195

Corybants, 36

Cosmos, 201

see “Ornamental effect”

Criticism, literary, 38 literary, history of, 38-39 new, 79

Cultural decline, x, xiii, 220-34 Culture, see “Paideia”

Daemonic, 54-55

Decorum, 213

in Longinus, 34

in eighteenth century, 34 Demonstration, see “Proof”

Development, xiii, 12, 37, 71,224

defined, 71

examples of, 71-72

Diagnosis, 40

Diatyposis, see “Vivid typical de­ scription”

Diction, see “Phrasing”

Digression, 61

defined, 77

Diminutive, 3

in Longinus, 171

Discipline, 12

Ecstasy, 10, 87-88, 94

comic, 204

Emotion, 50, 62-63, 88-89, 93, 95-96, 113,

127, 145, 158,172,215,233

Stoic renunciation of, 42 defined, 62-63

in Sappho, 65

not to be excluded from oratory, 94

suitable Lo peroration, 2 I9

Emulation, 80-82, 158, 230

defined, 81

Encomium, 102, 189 Encouragement, l02 Enthusiasm, 23, 51

Envy, 182

Epanaphora, see “Anaphora” Epigram, 31

Epiphany, 91

Episode, 59-60

Esteem, 226, 227-28

Etymology, 250-51

Example, I02

Examples, classification of, 186 Excellences, 160

classification of, 160 Exordium, purpose of, ix-x Experiment, 40

as distinguished from “experience,” 40

Exposition, 193 purpose of, x-xi

Figure, 28, 97-98, 99, I 19, 145

Figures of speech, 47, 48, 69 defined, 47, I IO

as distinguished from figures of thought, 99

as inversion of “natural” syntax, 97 combinations of, I12

Figures of style, 48

of style and thought, 118 Flute, 16, 23, 195

Form, 68, 78

Free, as literary term, 194 Frigidity, see “Wit, false” Funeral oration, 142

Grammarian, difference from critic, 38-39

job of, defined, 38

Harmony, oul of dissonance, 44 Hermeneutics, 36

Hexameter, 198

Historical present, 130

History, 77

Honor, see “Esteem” Hybris, 113-14,229

Hyperbaton, 117,118,119,121, 121-22,

Hyperbole, 37,187,190 Hysleron proleron, I I7

Idea, 45, I 18

defined, 45-46

Image, 87

Imagery, use of in ch., xiii

Imitation, by Longinus of device under discussion, 119

of nature, 119 see “Mimesis”

Impotence, periphrasis for, 143 Irony, 99, 168, 169-70

Judgmenl, 230-3 I critical, 40

Knowledge, 38

defined, 13, 38

philosophical contrasted with rhe- torical, 5

Lexis, see “Style” Likeness, see “Simile” Litotes, 211

Logos, vii, 6, 9, 52, 197, 229-30, 234,249,

as persuasion opposed Lo force, I0 translation of, 9

Longinus,On the Sublime, structure of,

IX-Xlll

dating of, 4

revival of interest in, viii

Lyre, a gentleman’s instrument, 6 Lyric, 20

Metaphor, 34, 68, 150, 153

in Longinus, 250-53 problem of translations, 64

Metaphysical poets, 157

Meler, 208-10

Mimesis, 79-82

272

and plagiarism, 83

INDEX V

purpose of, xii-xiii

defined, 79-80

history of, 79-80

Mollifiers, 153-54, 251

Music, 140-41, 142, 195, 197

presided over by the Muses, 9 Myth, 170

love of, 59

Nature, 21, 45, 46-47

allows for variation from figures, 98 ancient conception of, 97-98

and language, 97-98

and technique, 184-85, 219, 222 art the imitation of, 119-20

as source of genius, xi human, 180

imitation of, 201,217 relation to sublimity, x, 5 relation to technique, 120

Nomos, 163-64

Novelty, 36

Number, 125

Oaths, 100, 102

Oration, classical, parts of, ix Ornamental effect, 124-25, 141

Paideia, 8-9

Panegyric, viii, I 76, 188-89,

Papyrus, 246-47

Paragraph, 115-16

Parenthyrson, 27-28

Particles, 115

Patina, literary sense of, 148 Pauses, 73

Pentathlon, 167

Perfection, 184

Period, 3, 72-73

in Faulkner, 19

suitability for development, 74 Periodic sentence, 202-03

Periodic style, 3

Periphrasis, 140-142

Peroration, 14, 60,219

classification of, 219

Person, 85

change of, 132

shifts in, 135-37

Personification, 34

Persuasion, IO, 196-97

Pettiness, 207, 227

Phrasing, 147-49, 160,203 as excellence of style, 160

Pleasing touch, 36-37, 92, 191-92 Pleasure, as rhetorical term, 191-92

defined, 113

Plural number 37

Poetic license, 12, 47

Poetry, 69

Political life, 61, 93, 176-77

Political, meaning of in antiquity, 6-7 Polyptoton, 123

Polysyndeton, 115

Power, as rhetorical term, 172-73 Powerful, meaning of in Longinus, 77 Praeteritio, 47, 104, 147

as a figure of thought, 99 Praise, as rhetorical term, 233

Progress, analyzable by technique, 5 Proof, 75, 102

definition of, xi-xii

Proportion, see “Metaphor”

Propriety, 213

as excellence of style, 160 Prosopopoeia, 47

Puns, examples of in Longinus, 4, 32-33 Pygmy, 223-34

Question, rhetorical, 104, 107-08 125 Reading, the custom of reading to-

gether, 3

Relativistism, Longinus distant from, 38

Repetition, 47

Rhetoric, divisions of, 51 justification of, vii relation to polity, viii

Rhetorical question, see “Question, rhe­ torical”

Rhetorical technique, sustained interest

In, Vil

Rhythm, 199-200, 207-09

Longinus’s use of, xii, xiii as excellence of style, 160

Rule, see “Nomos”

Sculpture, Greek, 183 Silence, as sublime, IO, 53 Simile, 68, 186

Simplicity, as rhetorical term, 167-68 Sneer, as rhetorical device, 169 Sophist, 30

Speech and action, 5 Speeches, deliberative, xii

epideictic, xii

Step, as rhetorical term, 195 Stoicism, xiv, 223-224, 255

influence on Longinus, xv Style, 48-49, 147, 165

classification of, 145-46

Sublimity, 145-46

Aristotelian classification of, 25 definition of, x, xi

five springs of, 45

only possible in sections of works, 42 sources of, 64

whether from nature or technique, 12, 14, 47,

Longinus’ use of, 128

Suggestion, as rhetorical term, defined, 111

Swaddling-clothes, 222, 254 Swelling, as excellence of style, 160

Syncope, 209-10, 211, 227

as literary term, 199-200 System, 201-02

Technical investigation, 4

Technique, 52

and nature, 184-85

difference from experience, 11 relation to sublimity, 5, 11 relationship to nature, 120 source of rhetorical excellence, xi

Teleology, 155

Test of time, x, xi 43,

Theory, 125 practical use of, 7

Tmesis, I 17

Topics, see “Commonplaces” Tragedy, parody of, 17-20 Tragic hero, 41

Trope, 47, 49, I 19, 153

Truth, as standard of sublimity, I 74 Tyranny, 41

Underdevelopment, 42

Urbanities, 245

Urbanity, as rhetorical term, 168, 169

Variation, 37, 73, 114, 123 Vivid typical description, I 13

Wit, false, 25, 26, 29, 33

undergraduate, 25, 25-26, 29, 187-88 undergraduate, classification of,

187-88