[88] La Rue Van Hook, "Alcidamas _versus_ Isocrates," _Classical Weekly_, XII (Jan. 20, 1919), p. 90. Professor Van Hook here presents the only English translation of Alcidamas, _On the Sophists_. Isocrates made his reply in his speech _On the Antidosis_.
[93] "Verba prope poetarum," _ibid._, I, 128.
[94] "Id primum in poetis cerni licet, quibus est proxima cognatio cum oratoribus." _De orat._, III, 27. cf. also I, 70.
[97] _De compositione verborum_, XXV-XXVI.
[98] Sénèque le rheteur, _Controverses et suasoires_, ed. Henri Bornecque (Paris). Introduction pp. 20 ff.
[103] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, _De comp. verb._, XXIII.
[105] _Quomodo historia conscribenda sit_, Sec. 8. Trans, of Lucian by H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler (Oxford, 4 vols., 1905).
[106] Id quoque vitandum, in quo magna pars errat, ne in oratione poetas et historicos, in illis operibus oratores aut declamatores imitandos putemus. _De inst. orat_, X, ii, 21.
[107] Virgilius orator an poeta? quoted by Karl Vossler, _Poetische Theorien in der italienischen Frührenaissance_. (Berlin, 1900) p. 42, note 2.
[109] P. Abelson, _The Seven Liberal Arts_ (New York, 1906), p. 60, ff.
[110] _Poetria magistri Johannis anglici de arte prosayca metrica et rithmica_, ed. by G. Mari, _Romanische Forschungen_ (1902), XIII, p. 883 ff.
[113] Cf. G. L. Hendrickson, "The Origin and Meaning of the Ancient Characters of Style," _Am. Jour. of Phil._ (1905), xxvi, p. 249.
[114] Cf. the _auctor ad Her._, I, 4, who gives them as exordium, narratio, divisio, confirmatio, confutatio, conclusio.
[117] "Rhetoricâ, kleit unser rede mit varwe schône." Ed. by H. Rückert, _Bibl. der Deutsch. Lit._, Vol. 30, 1. 8924.
[118] Caius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius (430-488) can be consulted in a modern ed. by Paulus Mohr (Leipzig, 1895).
[119] Doctrina dell' ornato parlare." Woodward, _Educ. in the Ren._ p. 75.
[121] I am indebted to my friend Dr. Mark Van Doren for the transcript which I am here publishing.
[125] _Life of our Lady_ (1409-1411), (Caxton) lvii b.
[126] Trans, of Boethius (1410), quoted by Skeat, _Chaucer_, II, xvii.
[131] Reprinted from the ed. of 1555 for the Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 2.
[137] "Proximum grammatice docet, quae emendate & aperte loquendi vim tradit: Proximum _rhetorice, quae ornatum orationis cultum que & omnes capiendarum aurium illecebras invenit_. Quod reliquum igitur est videbitur sibi dialectice vendicare, probabliter dicere de qualibet re, quae deducitur in orationem." _De inventione dialectica_ (Paris, 1535), II, 2. cf. also II, 3.