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Excerpt from Metaphors in Aeschines the OratorIn the light of what has been already said by others* on the nature and origin of metaphors, it is hardly necessary to do more than refer to the ancient authorities on the subject, especially since the object of this dissertation is not so much to treat of the nature of the metaphor as to determine how far our author's use of it is individual and poetic. Among these, Quintillian and Cicero are suff...
Excerpt from Metaphors in Aeschines the Orator: A Missertation Presented to the Johns Hopkings University for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyIn the light of what has been already said by others* on the nature and origin of metaphors, it is hardly necessary to do more than refer to the ancient authorities on the subject, especially since the object of this dissertation is not so much to treat of the nature of the metaphor as to determine how...
Excerpt from Metaphors in Aeschines the Orator: A Missertation Presented to the Johns Hopkings University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Aeschines, like Andocides, was not a trained orator. He was a brilliant amateur, and owed his success as an orator to his great natural ability, to his practice in declamation while an actor, and to his familiarity with the poets, which he acquired when an actor and assistant in his father's school. ...