{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2178.tlg004.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2178.tlg004.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2178.tlg004.local001","title":"Prolegomena Longini commentariique reliquiae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Cassius Longinus","authorityName":"Cassius LONGINUS Phil. et Rhet.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2178-cassius-longinus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2178-cassius-longinus/","editors":["Maximilian Consbruch"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Hephaestionis Enchiridion cum commentariis veteribus","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1906","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Proofreading","names":[]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/hephaestionisenc00heph/page/n115/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Cassius Longinus. Prolegomena Longini commentariique reliquiae. ed. Maximilian Consbruch. Hephaestionis Enchiridion cum commentariis veteribus, Leipzig, Teubner, 1906. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2178.tlg004.local001","excerpt":"Ἀλλʼ εἴτε νέα τῶν μέτρων ἡ θεωρία εἴτε Μούσης εὕρημα παλαιᾶς ἑκάτερον ἕξει καλῶς. ἀρχαία ὲν γὰρ οὖσα ἐκ τῆς παλαιότητος ἕξει τὴν σεμνότητα, νέα δὲ οὖσα ποθεινοτέρα καθʼ Ὅμηρον (α 351)· τὴν γὰρ ἀοιδὴν πάντες ἐπικλείουσʼ ἄνθρωποι, ἥτις ἀϊόντεσσι νεωτάτη ἀμφιπέληται. Μέτρου δὲ πατὴρ ῥυθμὸς καὶ θεός· ἀπὸ ῥυθμοῦ ὰρ ἔσχε τὴν ἀρχήν, θεὸς δὲ τὸ μέτρον ἀνεφθέγξατο. Τοῦ δὲ περὶ μέτρων λόγου πολλοὶ πολλαχῶς ἤρξαντο, οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ στοιχείων ὡς Φιλόξενος, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ μέτρων ὅρου ὡς Ἡλιόδωρος· ἡμεῖς δὲ ʼHφαιστίωνι κατακολουθήσομεν ἀπὸ συλλαβῆς ἀρξάμενοι. ρῶτον δὲ ὀλίγα προειπεῖν δίκαιον. Κριτήριον μέτρου ἀκοή. ἔνιοι γοῦν οὕτως ὡρίσαντο· μέτρον ἐστὶ ποδῶν ἢ βάσεων σύνταξις αἰσθήσει τῇ διʼ ἀκοῆς παραλαμβανομένη. εἰ δὲ τὸ κρῖνόν ἐστιν ἀκοή, τὸ κοσμοῦν ἐστι φωνή. ὡς γὰρ τὸν ἦχον ῆς εὐρυθμίας ἐκτείνουσά τε καὶ συστέλλουσα ἡ φωνὴ σχηματίζει τὰς συλλαβάς, οὕτως εἰσδεξαμένη κρίνει ἡ ἀκοή. διὰ τοῦτο πολλὰ τῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2178.tlg004.local001/#tlg2178-tlg004-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2178.tlg004.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2178.tlg004.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2178/tlg004/local001.json.gz"}}