A treatise on rhetoric and style

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One column of a text discussing features of style and composition followed by the left edge of another column. The fragmentary Greek of col. I, 2-4 includes mention of rhythm. Col. I, 4-7 seems to discuss how "onoma <to te>tupemenon" (a problematic term) possesses forcefulness, conciseness, and meaning. In col. I, 7-9 a sequence which seems to begin as an explanatory relative clause referring to things that are "commonplace with respect to discourse", may have suffered some textual corruption. Col. I, 9-14, apparently a single sentence, discusses how "metaphor, in addition to being contrary to custom and to "sullogismos", in which "epilexeis" especially take delight, is...". Here the text once again becomes lacunose, but it seems that the discussion of metaphor now relates the figure in some manner, probably by way of contrast, to the "ordinary things". The fragmentary state of col. II obscures most of the sense for us there, but metaphor is probably mentioned in col. II, 2-3. That metaphor was dealt with quite extensively in this section of the treatise, with perhaps a direct continuation of the discussion from column I, is suggested as well by a probable Homeric quotation illustrating metaphorical usage in col. I, 8.