Horace, De Arte Poeiica

' Cui lecta potenter erit res, Nec facundia deseret hune nec lucidus ordo,' etc.

' When a poet has ably chosen his thème, neither facility of expression nor clear arrangement of matter will fail him. Now, if I ain not deceived, the merit and attractiveness of Order lie in his saying at once the things that should be said at once, and in reserving and for the moment omitting the unessential.'

Thus the essence of ordre is close adhérence to the immediately essential (as dictated by unité) ; it is the opposite of diffuseness, just as a well-drilled régiment is the opposite of a scattered mob.

32. Isocrates, a ceiebrated Athenian professor of éloquence. The remains of hisorations are remarkable for the simplicity and harmony of the style. He died in 338 B.c., of grief at the defeat of his countrymen at Cheronoea.