Longinus

[ lon-jahy-nuh s ]

/ lɒnˈdʒaɪ nəs /

Dionysius Cas·sius

[kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/,a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.

OTHER WORDS FROM Longinus

Lon·gin·e·an

[lon-jin-ee-uh n] /lɒnˈdʒɪn i ən/, adjective

Longinus here paused, and seemed for a time buried in meditation.

Zenobia |William Ware
Longinus, however, does not acknowledge any faculty of assent.

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 |Plotinos (Plotinus)
Longinus, while showing the relations of rhetoric and poetic, keeps the two apart; Dionysius draws them together.

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance |Donald Lemen Clark
They are known to us through his disciples Longinus and Plotinus chiefly.

History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) |John William Draper

Longinus seems conscious of some strangeness in his language, making a quasi-apology in .

On the Sublime |Longinus

Longinus

/ (lɒnˈdʒaɪnəs) /

Dionysius (ˌdaɪəˈnɪsɪəs). ?2nd century ad, supposed author of the famous Greek treatise on literary criticism, On the Sublime

Longinean (lɒnˈdʒɪnɪən), adjective