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The MouseionDionysius of HalicarnassusOn the Arrangement of Words

On the Arrangement of WordsΠερὶ συνθέσεως ὀνομάτων

By Dionysius of Halicarnassus. De Compositione Verborum · title translated from the Latin

Kind of writing
Rhetoric
Dialect
Attic/Koine
Written
1st c. BC
Length
23,402 words analysed
Vocabulary
72% common words
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1 Greek text, 0 English translations

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μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆοςοὐλομένην, ἣ μυρίʼ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε

Greek size
— px
Line spacing
1.8

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