ATTICISM

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) An elegant or concise form of expre ion. Milton, in his Apology for Smectymnuus, thus uses it: "They made sport, and I laughed: they mispronounced,and I misliked; and, to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hi ed." The term Sal Atticum was employed by the Romans at once to characterise the poignancy ofwit and brilliancy of style peculiar to the A then i an writers, and to designate the liveline , spirituality, and refined taste of the inhabitants of that city, which form ed the focus and central point of all the eloquence and re fine ment of the Greeks. [s. 118]