Rhet gre 1409a27-29ἡ μὲν οὖν εἰρομένη λέξις ἡ ἀρχαία ἐστίν (28) [“Ἡροδότου Θουρίου ἥδ’ ἱστορίης ἀπόδειξις”] (ταύτῃ γὰρ πρό(29)τερον μὲν ἅπαντες, νῦν δὲ οὐ πολλοὶ χρῶνται)·
Rhys Roberts 1924 engPart 9. The language of prose must be either free—running, with its parts united by nothing except the connecting words, like the preludes in dithyrambs; or compact and antithetical, like the strophes of the old poets.
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