Kitap 3
9.4
But the period must be completed with the sense and not stop short, as in the iambics of Sophocles,Really from the Meleager of Euripides, Frag. 515 (T.G.F.). The break in the sense comes after γαῖα, Πελοπίας χθονός really belonging to the next line: ἐν ἀντιπόρθμοις πέδι’ ἔχουσ’ εὐδαίμονα. As it stands in the text, the line implies that Calydon was in Peloponnesus, which of course it was not. The meaning then is: This is the land of Calydon, with its fertile plains in the country over against Peloponnesus (on the opposite side of the strait, near the mouth of the Corinthian gulf). This is Calydon, territory of the land of Pelops; for by a division of this kind it is possible to suppose the contrary of the fact, as in the example, that Calydon is in Peloponnesus.
9.5
A period may be composed of clauses, or simple. The former is a complete sentence, distinct in its parts and easy to repeat in a breath, not divided like the period in the line of Sophocles above, but when it is taken as a whole.It does not consist in simply dividing off any words from the context as the speaker pleases, but the parts of the sentence as a whole are properly constructed and distinguished and the sense also is complete. By clause I mean one of the two parts of this period, and by a simple period one that consists of only one clause.
