Atticism

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In prose also the Augustans upheld the refined and chaste work of classical Atticism, an ideal which they derived from the Romans of the preceding generation rather than from teachers like Apollodorus.

From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney

Her models are Thucydides, Polybius and Xenophon, and her style exhibits the striving after Atticism characteristic of the period, with the result that the language is highly artificial.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

And even in Athens the burden of Atticism, if we may say so, seems to have become too great to bear.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

The Atticism which had guided and comprehended, now began to cramp development.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas

We need not accept literally Pliny’s praises of his Atticism, and of the grace and sweetness of his Greek epigrams.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel