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VERSO

is an arrangement dignified and
elivated. Come then, we will consi-
der those things comprehended in
each of these forms, premising
some such a thing as this, that of
these five sources of the sublime,
Caecilious has rejected one, that is
he has neglected pathos. But if in
deed, both of these, as if one, viz, the sublime and
the pathetic, seemed to him in every res-
pect, to be united and to be of the same na-
ture with each other, he errs; for there
are passions, that are both seperated from
sublimity and inferior to it; such as
sorrow, grief, fear; And on the con-
trary, there are many sublimities,
different from pathos, as in addition
to other things, those hold expressions
of the poet, concerning the Giants,
T "They wished to place Ossa on Olympus;
and on Ossa, Pilion waving with leaves, that
they might climb to heaven."
Yet what follows these words are still
more sublime,
"And they would have done it.—
Indeed even among orators, pompous
and displayed [paneugeyiss] panegyrick,
abound every where with the vast
and sublime, but are destitute, for
the most part, of the pathetic. Hence
some of the orators being pathetical, are

RECTO

do not panegyrize, while on the contrary
those that panegyrize, are not pathetical.
But if, again on the other hand, Caecilius did
consider the passions to contribute to sub-
limity, and that did not think them worthy
of e recollection, he was greatly deceived.
For I would boldly essert, that nothing is
so sublime, as a suitable degree of animated
pathos, as if breathed by a certain fury
and enthuastic spirit, and as if fore-
telling events, by the inspiration of Apollo.
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But when, as if by a suden impulse of
God, and as it were inspired by Appolo,
he swore by those great men of Greece;
"It cannot be that you err, No! I sware
by those who died at Marithon"; It is
manifest by this one figure of an
oath, which here I call an apostrophe,
he presents our ancesstors diefied,
who dying thus, should be sworn to, as
gods, and to presents to the judges the
prudence of those M who had there
fought, and also changing the nature
of his example into for an elivated sub-
limity and pathos, and for that persua-
sion worthy of a new and sublime
oath, he seems even at once, to throw his eloquence
as if a certain physician and an evil
repelling remedy, into the bosom
of his hearers; that they being spurd by
his encomiums, resolved to achieve nothing
less glorious, in this battle against Phillip.