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Excerpt from Handbook of Greek Synonymes
The principal point on which I have differed from my Author is the, as it seems to me, undue extension he has given to the term poetical, by which he would be cousi dered by the student, if unwarned, to condemn, not unire quently, the use in prose of words that are found in prose writers of the best age, principally indeed by Plato and Xenophon, but sometimes by Thucydides and the Orators.
The early notes which I have added to the Work are principally at the end of the volume; but from the twenty-fourth article I have inserted them in the text, but always distinguished them from the Author's own remarks by including them within brackets J.
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