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
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 Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Atticism, a pure and refined style of expression in any language, originally the purest and most refined style of the ancient literature of Greece.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
They have, it seems, a certain Urbanitas, or Atticism, in their Language, of which the common Ears are ever sensible, though only their great Speakers attain to it.
From The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Part I, Part II by Cadwallader Colden
