Various Church Fathers
Letter LIV.
Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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Ep. LIV.
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On Laconicism. To be laconic is not merely, as you suppose, to write few words, but to say a great deal in few words. Thus I call Homer very brief and Antimachus lengthy. Why? Because I measure the length by the matter and not by the letters.
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