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Title: On the Sublime

Author: Longinus

Commentator: Andrew Lang

Translator: H. L. Havell

Release Date: March 10, 2006 [EBook #17957]

Language: English

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LONGINUS

ON THE SUBLIME

Translated into English by

H. L. HAVELL, B.A.
Formerly Scholar of University College, Oxford

with an Introduction by
ANDREW LANG

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
and New York
1890

_All rights reserved_

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TO

S. H. BUTCHER, Esq., LL.D.

Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh
Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
and of University College, Oxford

This Attempt
to Present the Great Thoughts of Longinus
in an English Form

Is Dedicated

in Acknowledgment of the Kind Support
but for Which It Might Never Have Seen the Light
and of the Benefits of That
Instruction to Which It Largely Owes
Whatever of Scholarly Quality It May Possess

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

The text which has been followed in the present Translation is that
of Jahn (Bonn, 1867), revised by Vahlen, and republished in 1884. In
several instances it has been found necessary