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His archaism in the use of pure Latin, and, alongside of it, his free adoption of Grecisms, are the first open sign of two movements which profoundly affected the prose of the earlier and later empire. The acrid critic of the Augustan age, Asinius Pollio, accused him of having had collections of obsolete words and phrases made for his use out of Cato and the older Roman writers.
Rymer's work out of his hands: he has promised the world a critique on that author wherein, though he will not allow his poem for heroic, I hope he will grant us that his thoughts are elevated, his words sounding, and that no man has so happily copied the manner of Homer, or so copiously translated his Grecisms and the Latin elegances of Virgil.
Its rude literal fidelity imported into Christian Latin an enormous mass of Grecisms and Hebraisms the latter derived from the original writings, the former from the Septuagint version of the Old Testament which combined with its free use of popular language and its relaxed grammar to force the new Latin further and further away from the classical tradition.
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