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Under the title Libri secundi de antiquis oratoribus reliquiae are gathered the remains of the second book of Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ On the Ancient Orators, the part of his critical series devoted to the later masters of Attic eloquence, above all Demosthenes. Dionysius, a Greek rhetorician and historian, wrote at Rome in the Augustan period.
Where the first book, on Lysias, Isocrates, and Isaeus, survives whole, the second has come down incomplete, and these remains show the shape of the lost whole. They matter for the history of rhetorical criticism in the first century BC and for Dionysius’ ranking of the orators he held up as models for imitation.
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