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would have been meaningless unless his pieces were
intended for recitation. It was the artfulness which
Gorgias gave it that enabled Isocrates to maintain that
prose was the legitimate successor of poetry and must
replace it. Later critics like Dionysius of Halicarnassus
judge historians by the same gauge as oratory and make
comparisons between their works with no allowances for
what we should consider necessary differences in genera.
(pp. 50­1)
Hadas then turns (pp. 51­2) to the well-known passage
in St. Augustine’s Confessions:
Throughout antiquity and long thereafter even
private readers regularly pronounced the words of their
text aloud, in prose as well as poetry. Silent reading was