# De imitatione (fragmenta) 31.5.6

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De imitatione (fragmenta), Fragment 31, Section 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/dionysius-of-halicarnassus/de-imitatione-fragmenta/31.5.6

Ὁ δὲ Ὑπερείδης εὔστοχος μέν, σπάνιον δ’ αὐξη|τικός· καὶ τῇ μὲν τῆς φράσεως κατασκευῇ Λυσίαν ὑπερηρκώς, τῇ δὲ τῆς εὑρέσεως πανουργίᾳ πάντας. ἔτι δὲ τοῦ κρινομένου διὰ παντὸς ἔχεται, καὶ τοῖς ἀναγκαίοις τοῦ πράγματος προσπέφυκεν, καὶ συνέσει πολλῇ κεχορήγηται, καὶ χάριτος μεστός ἐστι· καὶ δοκῶν ἁπλοῦς οὐκ ἀπήλλακται δεινότητος. τούτου ζηλωτέον μάλιστα τῶν διηγήσεων τὸ λεπτὸν καὶ σύμμετρον, ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὰς ἐφόδους, 〈ὡς〉 ἐπὶ τὰ πράγματα βαδίζει. |

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Dionysius of Halicarnasus, De imitatione (fragmenta), 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.
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