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Headword: Charaktêres
Adler number: chi,94
Translated headword: characters
Vetting Status: low
Translation:

of expressive speeches [are] lofty, plain, [and] intermediate. Thucydides[1] favoured the lofty, as suited to his own nature.

Greek Original:

Charaktêres logôn phrastikôn hupsêlos, ischnos, mesos. ho de Thoukudidês ton hupsêlon ezêlôsen, hôs prosphoron têi oikeiai phusei.

Notes:

Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 39.
[1] See generally theta 414.

Keywords: biography; historiography; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 November 2005@10:32:48.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (set status) on 27 November 2005@18:22:57.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 28 November 2005@03:42:38.

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