Atticism
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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
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
But let it also be remembered that Lysias claims the merit of Atticism, not so much for his simplicity and want of ornament, as because he has nothing which is either faulty or impertinent.
From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.
Are you bound to give Vestorius some days, and must you go through the stale banquet of his Latin Atticism again after an interval?
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.
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
