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There is another threefold division, whereby,
it is held, we may differentiate three styles of
speaking, all of them correct. The first is termed
the plain1 (or ἰσχνόν), the second grand and
forcible (or ἁδρόν), and the third either intermediate or florid, the latter being a translation
of ἀνθηρόν.
1 subtilis (lit. = finely woven) applied to style has three meanings: (a) refined, (b) precise, (c) plain. See Sandys on Cic. Or. vi. 20.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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