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Hesiod rarely rises to any height, while a
great part of his works is filled almost entirely with
names1: none the less, his maxims of moral wisdom
provide a useful model, the smooth flow of his
words and structure merit our approval, and he
is assigned the first place among writers of the
intermediate style.
1 Especially the Theogony.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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