Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 12.10.58

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[58] There is another threefold division, whereby, it is held, we may differentiate three styles of speaking, all of them correct. The first is termed the plain ¹ (or ἰσχνόν ), the second grand and forcible (or ἁδρόν ), and the third either intermediate or florid, the latter being a translation of ἀνθηρόν.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[58] altera est divisio, quae in tres partes et ipsa discedit, qua discerni posse etiam recte dicendi genera inter se videntur. namque unum subtile, quod ἰσχνόν vocant, alterum grande atque robustum, quod ἁδρόν dicunt, constituunt; tertium alii, medium ex duobus, alii floridum (namque id ἀνθηρόν appellant) addiderunt.

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1. subtilis ( lit. = finely woven) applied to style has three meanings: (a) refined, (b) precise, (c) plain. See Sandys on Cic. Or. vi. 20.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 12.10.58

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