Citations:Atticism

English citations of Atticismes, Atticisme, Atticism, and Atticisms

• 1611, Thomas James, A Treatiſe of the Corruption of Scripture, Councels, and Fathers, by the Prelats, Pastors, and Pillars of the Church of Rome, for maintenance of Popery and irreligion.…Diuided into V. Parts., London: Mathew Lownes, The II. Part.: Corruption of the true Fathers., “The 19. place corrupted, in Agapetus words lib. 2. Meliſſarum per Antonium Monachum Græcum. Bibl. Sſ. Patrum Tom. 1. pag. 208. Par. 1571.”, page 68:

  By the Cardinals own confeſsion, this Agapetus liued at Conſtantinople in Iuſtinians time: where it was a great matter for him, no doubt, in ſo long time, to learn to make ſuch a Greek booke as this is; which yet for the ſtile and Atticiſmes, comes a great deale ſhort of Baronius commendation.

• 1628, Eight Bookes Of the Peloponnesian Warre Written by Thvcydides the sonne of Olorvs. Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke By Thomas Hobbes, Secretary to yͤ late Earle of Deuonſhire, London: Richard Mynne, published 1634, Lib. 8. (⸿ 38, ¶ 3), pages 489–490:

  And the Chians, as hauing beene diſheartned in diuers former Battels, and otherwiſe, not onely, not mutually well affected, but iealous one of another, (for Tydeus and his Complices, had bin put to death by Pædaritus for Atticiſme, and the reſt of the City was kept in awe, but by force, and for a time) ſtirred not againſt them.

  [original: οἱ δὲ Χῖοι ἐν πολλαῖς ταῖς πρὶν μάχαις πεπληγμένοι, καὶ ἄλλως ἐν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς οὐ πάνυ εὖ διακείμενοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν μετὰ Τυδέως τοῦ Ἴωνος ἤδη ὑπὸ Πεδαρίτου ἐπ’ ἀττικισμῷ τεθνεώτων καὶ τῆς ἄλλης πόλεως κατ’ ἀνάγκην ἐς ὀλίγους κατεχομένης ὑπόπτως διακείμενοι ἀλλήλοις ἡσύχαζον, καὶ οὔτ’ αὐτοὶ διὰ ταῦτα οὔθ’ οἱ μετὰ Πεδαρίτου ἐπίκουροι ἀξιόμαχοι αὐτοῖς ἐφαίνοντο.]

  hoi dè Khîoi en pollaîs taîs prìn mákhais peplēgménoi, kaì állōs en sphísin autoîs ou pánu eû diakeímenoi, allà kaì tôn metà Tudéōs toû Íōnos ḗdē hupò Pedarítou ep’ attikismôi tethneṓtōn kaì tês állēs póleōs kat’ anánkēn es olígous katekhoménēs hupóptōs diakeímenoi allḗlois hēsúkhazon, kaì oút’ autoì dià taûta oúth’ hoi metà Pedarítou epíkouroi axiómakhoi autoîs ephaínonto.

  — Thucydides’ Greek from η Βικιθήκη – the Greek Wikisource

• 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology Againſt a Pamphlet Call’d A Modeſt Confutation of the Animadverſions upon the Remonſtrant againſt Smectymnuus., London: Iohn Rothwell, page 14:

  There while they acted, and overacted, among other young ſcholars, I was a ſpectator; they thought themſelves gallant men, and I thought them fools, they made ſport, and I laught, they miſpronounc’t and I miſlik’t, and to make up the atticiſme, they were out, and I hiſt.

• 1792, William Newcome, An Historical View of the English Biblical Translations, page 279 (T.):

  An elegant atticism which occurs [in] Luke xiii. 9.

• 1813 May 10th, The Examiner, page 298/1:

  Such a man would accuse Thucydides of false grammar on account of his atticisms.

• 1837, Connop Thirlwall, History of Greece, volume IV, chapter xxxi, page 188:

  The charge of Atticism.

• 1994 April, Jakob Wisse, “Greeks, Romans, and the Rise of Atticism” (chapter 4), in Jelle Gert-Jan Abbenes, Simon Roelof Slings, Ineke Sluiter, editors, Greek Literary Theory After Aristotle: A Collection of Papers in Honour of D.M. Schenkeveld, Amsterdam: VU University Press, published 1995, pages 65–82
• 2016, Eleni Bozia, “Atticism: The Language of 5th-century Oratory or a Quantifiable Stylistic Phenomenon?”, in Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Celano, Gregory Crane, editors, Open Linguistics, volume 2, special issue on Treebanking and Ancient Languages: Current and Prospective Research, Berlin: De Gruyter Open Access, published the 30th of December, 2016, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 557–571
• 2020 August 27th [2015 December 22nd], Lawrence Kim, “Asianism and Atticism”, in Oxford Classical Dictionary (digital edition), →DOI: