Atticism
Example Sentences
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Those, therefore, who can accommodate themselves to the nice and critical ears of an Athenian audience, are the only persons who should pretend to Atticism.
From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by E. Jones
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 Tenney Frank
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 Samuel Dill
It seems, moreover, to have been a departure from the primitive temper of Atticism, which tended both to cantonal residence and rural occupation.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
This classical renaissance turned back the literary language into the old ossified forms, as had previously happened in the case of the Atticism of the early centuries of the empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
