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Excerpt from St. Basil and Greek Literature: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Letters of the Catholic University of America in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy It is necessary to mention special assistance derived from Mr. J. M. Campbell's In uence of the Second Sophistic upon the Style of the Sermons of St. Basil the Great which was read while still in manuscript form, and which furnished interesting and im portant details on Sophistic rhetoric. The use of this study much facilitated some of the work in connection with Atticism and the Second Sophistic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."