Book 3
3.2
This is one cause of frigidity; another is the use of strange words; as Lycophron calls Xerxes a monster of a man, Sciron a human scourgeSciron and Sinnis were both robbers slain by Theseus, by Lycophron turns Sinnis into a γλῶττα, using it adjectivally = destructive; cf. σῖνος, harm; σίντης = σίννις.; and Alcidamas says plaything in poetry, the audaciousness of nature, whetted with unmitigated wrath of thought.
