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Rh 18. . Probably of sea-sickness; and so I find Ruhnken took it, quoting Plutarch, T. ii. 831: . An objection on the score of taste would be out of place in criticising the laureate of the Arimaspi.

X. 7. 2. . appears to be a condensed phrase for. "Having chosen the most striking circumstances par excellence, and having relieved them of all superfluity," would perhaps give the literal meaning. Longinus seems conscious of some strangeness in his language, making a quasi-apology in.

3. Partly with the help of Toup, we may emend this corrupt passage as follows:. here = "omnino." To explain the process of corruption, would easily drop out after the final - in ;  is simply a corruption of, which is itself a gloss on , having afterwards crept into the text;  became corrupted into  through the error of some copyist, who wished to make it agree with. The whole may be translated: "Such [interpolations], like so many patches or rents, mar altogether the effect of those details which, by being built up in an uninterrupted series [], produce sublimity in a work."

XII. 4. 2. ; the sense seems clearly to require.

XIV. 3. 16. . Most of the editors insert before, thus ruining the sense of this fine