Page 236 THE SOPHISTS : POLEMON AND HERODES ATTICUS attended the classes of Secundus of Athens, and
he was a pupil of Theagenes of Cnidus and of Munatius of Tralles
among the grammarians, and, for Platonic philosophy, of Taurus
of Tyre. The construction of his speeches is sufficiently restrained,
their cleverness persuasive rather than emphatic, a combination
of sonority and simplicity, a music recalling Critias, original
epigrams, an eloquence of wit that was not artificial but drawn
from life, a pleasant style, rich in figures of speech, graceful,
cleverly varied, a vigour never excessive but smooth and steady,
the general character of his oratory being like grains of gold
shining through a river's silvery eddies. |
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