no EXTANT MONUMENTS OF FIFTH CENTURY B.C.
' Then he will bid you imitate those ancient writers, placing before you
forms of words not easy to imitate, like the products of the old work-
manship of Hegesias, Critios, Nesiotes, and their associates—com-
pressed, sinewy, rigid, and sharply outlined—and will tell you that
labour, wakefulness, water-drinking, and perseverance are necessary
and inexorable.' 1
1 Lucian, Rhetor. Precept. 9 : aire(ripiyp.4va
Kal vevpihdf} Kal GKXripa. Kal aKpifi&s airore-
ra/ieya reus ypap.^.a1s irovov re Kal aypvirviav
Kal vZaroiroo'Lav Kal rb Xnraph? avayKata
ravra /cat aTrapalrijra (pTjcei.
' Then he will bid you imitate those ancient writers, placing before you
forms of words not easy to imitate, like the products of the old work-
manship of Hegesias, Critios, Nesiotes, and their associates—com-
pressed, sinewy, rigid, and sharply outlined—and will tell you that
labour, wakefulness, water-drinking, and perseverance are necessary
and inexorable.' 1
1 Lucian, Rhetor. Precept. 9 : aire(ripiyp.4va
Kal vevpihdf} Kal GKXripa. Kal aKpifi&s airore-
ra/ieya reus ypap.^.a1s irovov re Kal aypvirviav
Kal vZaroiroo'Lav Kal rb Xnraph? avayKata
ravra /cat aTrapalrijra (pTjcei.