# Ars Rhetorica 3

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica, Τέχνη περὶ τῶν πανηγυρικῶν. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/dionysius-of-halicarnassus/ars-rhetorica/3

Ἐφεξῆς ἐπιέναι χρὴ τὸν ἔπαινον τῆς πόλεως, ἐν ᾗ ἡ πανήγυρις· περὶ θέσεως αὐτῆς, περὶ γενέσεως· ἐν ᾧ τίς ὁ κτίστης θεὸς ἢ ἥρως, καὶ εῖ τι ἔχεις περὶ αὐτοῦ εἰπεῖν· εἴ τι πέπρακται τῇ πόλει ἢ ἐν πολέμοις ἢ ἐπ’ εἰρήνης. ἁρμόσει δὲ καὶ περὶ μεγέθους λέγειν, εἰ μεγάλη, ἢ 〈εἰ〉 σμικρά, ὅτι κάλλει διαφέρουσα, ὅτι εἰ καὶ σμικρά, ἀλλὰ δυνάμει ἰσοῦται ταῖς μεγάλαις. ὅσα περὶ κόσμου, οἷον ἱερῶν ἢ τῶν ἐν τούτοις ἀναθημάτων, δημοσίων οἰκοδομημάτων, ἰδιωτικῶν, ὥς που καὶ Ἡρόδοτος πεντώροφα καὶ ἑξώροφα φησὶν εἶναι ἐν Βαβυλῶνι· ἂν ποταμὸς ᾖ μέγας ἢ καθαρὸς ἢ συμβαλλόμενος τοῖς ἐνοικοῦσι τὴν χώραν· εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ μῦθος εἴη λεγόμενός τις περὶ τῆς πόλεως, οὕτω μὲν ἂν καὶ πολλὴν γλυκύτητα ἔχοι ὁ λόγος.

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Dionysius of Halicarnasus, Ars Rhetorica, ed. Hermann Usener, Ludwig Radermacher. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0081.tlg016.local001/.