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1003 | formerly
1004 II, 5 | advantages that make men formidable-wealth, physical strength, strong
1005 II, 4 | Friendship has various forms-comradeship, intimacy, kinship, and
1006 II, 23| line of proof is the "a fortiori". Thus it may be argued
1007 III, 3 | again, called philosophy "a fortress that threatens the power
1008 I, 4 | and the positions of the forts-this last means that he must
1009 II, 11| Hence we often despise the fortunate, when luck comes to them
1010 II, 8 | imagine themselves immensely fortunate-their feeling is rather presumptuous
1011 II, 12| to our various ages and fortunes. By emotions I mean anger,
1012 II, 14| five-and-thirty; the mind about forty-nine.~
1013 III, 2 | term must be held fairer or fouler than another. For both of
1014 I, 8 | forms of government are four-democracy, oligarchy, aristocracy,
1015 III, 11| say that a good man is "four-square" is certainly a metaphor;
1016 I, 15| In regard to oaths, a fourfold division can be made. A
1017 I, 13| laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what
1018 I, 1 | function of an art.~Now, the framers of the current treatises
1019 I, 4 | at all. It is useful, in framing laws, not only to study
1020 III, 4 | the lean Cephisodotus to frankincense, because it was his consumption
1021 I, 15| right and the subsequent one fraudulent-whichever way suits us. Further, we
1022 II, 24| he avenged-the Greeks he freed". Each of these statements
1023 III, 8 | question, "Whom does the freedman choose as his advocate?",
1024 III, 12| speeches-speakers use them freely, for they have a dramatic
1025 II, 25| ways: either in respect of frequency or in respect of exactness.
1026 III, 19| introduction-repeat your points frequently so as to make them easily
1027 III, 4 | youthful freshness-when the freshness has faded the charm perishes,
1028 III, 4 | beauty but possess youthful freshness-when the freshness has faded
1029 II, 8 | evils due to chance are: friendlessness, scarcity of friends (it
1030 II, 1 | of others. Good will and friendliness of disposition will form
1031 II, 5 | prospect of which does not frighten us: I mean only such as
1032 I, 9 | again, may be serious or frivolous; nor is it always of a human
1033 III, 3 | had he inherited"; and so "frowning care of heart", and "achiever"
1034 II, 2 | as the quite unexpected fulfilment of our wishes is specially
1035 I, 7 | that thing is a good which fulfils these conditions in regard
1036 I, 4 | importance to distinguish, their fuller treatment falling naturally
1037 I, 2 | the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there
1038 I, 6 | productive of what is good. Further-good parts, strong memory, receptiveness,
1039 I, 11| much inferior to yourself-e.g. children or animals-you
1040 III, 10| battle; they celebrate small gains and single successes; it
1041 II, 22| the enslavement of their gallant allies against the barbarians (
1042 III, 5 | likely to be right, in the game of "odd and even", if we
1043 III, 9 | at the beginning~agron gar elaben arlon par’ autou~
1044 II, 8 | actions of sufferers-the garments and the like of those who
1045 I, 4 | country-in order that a garrison may be increased if it is
1046 II, 6 | as they went through the gates, he said, "Why do you cover
1047 III, 2 | with advantage. This we gather from the fact that these
1048 II, 1 | and morally good must be gathered from the analysis of goodness
1049 II, 22| we have to speak on, and gathering in as many of them as we
1050 III, 5 | Diviners use these vague generalities about the matter in hand
1051 II, 19| particular facts count more than generalizations.~Enough has now been said
1052 II, 23| are philosophers". And "if generals are not bad men because
1053 I, 1 | strength, health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest
1054 II, 15| are poor creatures. In the generations of men as in the fruits
1055 I, 9 | courage, and extravagance generosity. That will be what most
1056 II, 13| keep alive. They are not generous, because money is one of
1057 I, 9 | magnanimity, liberality, gentleness, prudence, wisdom. If virtue
1058 III, 7 | displaying these signs of its genuineness expresses your personal
1059 III, 4 | Euxenus who could not do geometry-a proportional simile, implying
1060 II, 8 | their words with suitable gestures, tones, dress, and dramatic
1061 III, 3 | visaged heaven" above the "giant-crested earth", and again the "strait-pathed
1062 III, 3 | could; and so it was a good gibe to address her as what she
1063 III, 14| display, as~For thee, and thy gilts, and thy battle-spoils....~
1064 III, 3 | shameful; considering her as a girl, you could; and so it was
1065 II, 4 | for you, since we all feel glad at getting what we wish
1066 III, 1 | it has been studied by Glaucon of Teos among others.) It
1067 III, 7 | exultation for a tale of glory, and that of humiliation
1068 II, 6 | a man’s good points and glozing over his weaknesses, and
1069 III, 2 | riddle~I marked how a man glued bronze with fire to another
1070 II, 24| the rescue" because they gnawed through the bowstrings.
1071 III, 11| fairer than Aphrodite the Golden,~Defter of hand than Athene...~(
1072 III, 2 | Babylonians where he uses "goldlet" for "gold", "cloaklet"
1073 II, 19| discussion is some kind of good-whether it is utility, nobleness,
1074 III, 3 | law", and the Odyssey "a goodly looking-glass of human life",’
1075 I, 8 | of one or other of these governing powers.~A Democracy is a
1076 I, 8 | to the various forms of government-only, however, to the extent
1077 I, 8 | shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn
1078 III, 9 | zonta eleges kakos kai nun grafeis kakos.~Of one syllable, ~
1079 III, 3 | tragic poets. Others are too grand and theatrical; and these,
1080 I, 5 | verse or prose; privileges; grants of land; front seats at
1081 III, 9 | always feels that he is grasping something and has reached
1082 I, 12| wrong to whom we shall be gratifying our friends, or those we
1083 III, 16| father and mother in their graves~Lie dead, no brother can
1084 III, 12| to know how to speak good Greek. To know the former means
1085 III, 3 | talks of "events that are green and full of sap", and says "
1086 I, 11| remember pain,~and ~Even his griefs are a joy long after to
1087 II, 4 | nurse grudges or store up grievances, but are always ready to
1088 II, 23| the charge was shown to be groundless. Another example is from
1089 I, 2 | apply only to particular groups or classes of things. Thus
1090 II, 4 | towards those who do not nurse grudges or store up grievances,
1091 III, 16| hard to believe, you must guarantee its truth, and at once offer
1092 III, 16| Jocasta, in his Oedipus, keeps guaranteeing the truth of her answers
1093 I, 4 | strategic points may be guarded with special care.~With
1094 I, 5 | together with the power of guarding one’s property and body
1095 I, 3 | recall the past and to make guesses at the future.~Rhetoric
1096 III, 9 | There one time I as their guest did stay,~And they were
1097 II, 14| correctly. Their lives will be guided not by the sole consideration
1098 III, 17| begins~Not for the wealth of Gyes...~So too Sophocles makes
1099 I, 11| recovery of that natural state. Habits also are pleasant; for as
1100 III, 2 | an adequate fee, he wrote~Hail to you, daughters of storm-footed
1101 I, 11| Dramatic turns of fortune and hairbreadth escapes from perils are
1102 III, 2 | unpleasant to write odes to half-asses: but on receiving an adequate
1103 I, 7 | inflicts worse injury than half-blinding a man with two eyes; for
1104 I, 7 | flame,~When strangers are haling young children to thraldom,~(
1105 III, 5 | Croesus by crossing the Halys will ruin a mighty realm.~
1106 III, 19| yourself, censure him, and hammer in your points. You must
1107 I, 5 | do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise
1108 I, 5 | brothers are ugly, but you are handsome yourself; or when you find
1109 III, 2 | somebody calls actors "hangers-on of Dionysus", but they call
1110 II, 24| things improbable oft will hap to men.~For what is improbable
1111 I, 2 | its syllogisms out of any haphazard materials, such as the fancies
1112 II, 6 | Also, refusing to endure hardships that are endured by people
1113 III, 11| man of Carpathus and his hare", says he. For both alike
1114 III, 15| and say that, if the deed harmed him, at any rate it was
1115 I, 3 | establishing the expediency or the harmfulness of a proposed course of
1116 II, 5 | power of destroying or of harming us in ways that tend to
1117 II, 12| their neighbour by their own harmless natures, and so cannot think
1118 III, 2 | conspicuous: the want of harmony between two things is emphasized
1119 III, 11| Theodorus about Nicon the harpist Thratt’ ei su ("you Thracian
1120 III, 11| mean Thratteis su ("you harpplayer"), and surprises us when
1121 III, 7 | you should not extend this harshness to your voice and your countenance
1122 III, 3 | deed you sowed and evil the harvest you reaped". That is too
1123 II, 2 | like either slighting us or hating us; for those who love us
1124 III, 6 | Achaean,~though only one haven is meant, and ~Here are
1125 III, 6 | poetry, where one finds~Unto havens Achaean,~though only one
1126 II, 1 | arguments so as to convince our hearers-those opinions with which our
1127 II, 23| likewise-that this world~Hears many a true word and believes
1128 III, 7 | talking about a wrong as "heaven-high" or "colossal"; and we excuse
1129 II, 4 | are not likely to suffer heavily by it ourselves. And those
1130 I, 7 | Olympic games:~In time past, heaving a Yoke on my shoulders,~
1131 II, 23| they. And, in Euripides, Hecuba says of Aphrodite,~Her name
1132 II, 23| never spoke like that". And Hegesippus, having previously consulted
1133 I, 5 | surpass ordinary people in height, thickness, and breadth
1134 II, 8 | it follows that those who heighten the effect of their words
1135 III, 2 | down, though at other times heightened. We can now see that a writer
1136 III, 10| graphic metaphor. "Till all Hellas shouted aloud" may be regarded
1137 III, 11| in~Thereas up sprang the Hellenes to their feet,~where "up
1138 II, 22| treachery to the cause of Hellenic freedom, or the enslavement
1139 III, 9 | the sea, by bridging the Hellespont and cutting through Athos"; "
1140 II, 7 | described, and that their helpers gave, or are giving, the
1141 II, 7 | they are being or have been helpful simply to promote their
1142 II, 6 | disgraceful ways, or out of helpless persons, e.g. the poor,
1143 III, 17| Never, I ween, would Hera...~where the speaker has
1144 II, 22| or what they did for the Heracleidae, or any other facts like
1145 III, 8 | as children catch up the herald’s question, "Whom does the
1146 II, 10| dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion
1147 | Herein
1148 II, 24| in being a dog. Or that Hermes is readier than any other
1149 III, 11| feed on the flesh of the heroes;~and ~And the point of the
1150 III, 8 | the various rhythms, the heroic has dignity, but lacks the
1151 III, 15| Priam, since his mother Hesione was Priam’s sister. Teucer
1152 II, 13| know"; and because of their hesitation they always add a "possibly"
1153 II, 21| quote~One omen of all is hest, that we fight for our fatherland.~
1154 I, 7 | follows that that thing is hetter which understanding declares
1155 III, 1 | still used by the writers of hexameter poems. It is therefore ridiculous
1156 II, 16| and rich men, in answer to Hiero’s wife, who asked him whether
1157 II, 24| do this when we paint a highly-coloured picture of the situation
1158 I, 15| question contradicts some other highly-esteemed law, or even contradicts
1159 III, 16| character, or to eulogize him-only then you will not be doing
1160 III, 10| his statue intercedes for him-that lifeless yet living thing
1161 II, 20| leader. When the people of Himera had made Phalaris military
1162 II, 23| might be a lesser man than himself-such a motive for doing so is
1163 III, 15| questions on which the dispute hinges. Thus Iphicrates replying
1164 II, 13| bitterly, but following the hint of Bias they love as though
1165 II, 24| the downfall of the tyrant Hipparchus. Or, again, that Dionysius
1166 I, 2 | individual like Socrates or Hippias, but with what seems probable
1167 I, 9 | own: thus we may praise Hippolochus because the first encomium
1168 III, 11| his feet were shod with his-chilblains,~where one imagined the
1169 III, 16| Aeschines described Cratylus as "hissing with fury and shaking his
1170 I, 4 | also find the researches of historians useful. But all this is
1171 I, 4 | not only to study the past history of one’s own country, in
1172 III, 1 | of a speech greatly; but hitherto the subject has been neglected.
1173 I, 5 | overlooked; or when a missile hits the next man and misses
1174 II, 11| wisdom, public office. Holders of public office-generals,
1175 II, 20| river, was swept into a hole in the rocks; and, not being
1176 III, 4 | crying; and the Boeotians to holm-oaks, because they were ruining
1177 III, 9 | together-antithesis, parison, and homoeoteleuton. (The possible beginnings
1178 I, 5 | honour; which explains why honour-loving as well as money-loving
1179 II, 11| deserved by men held in honour-these are wealth, abundance of
1180 III, 11| an anchor and an overhead hook were the same, since both
1181 II, 1 | eager for, and have good hopes of, a thing that will be
1182 II, 5 | if we have done anything horrible, those in the secret terrify
1183 I, 7 | battle by the thought of~All horrors that light on a folk whose
1184 III, 9 | did stay,~And they were my hosts on another day.~
1185 II, 12| hunger and thirst. They are hot-tempered, and quick-tempered, and
1186 I, 11| first, like hunting with hounds, or indeed any kind of hunting.
1187 I, 12| done to the women in his household or to himself or to his
1188 III, 9 | keep foreigners in their houses as servants, while the city
1189 I, 9 | inanimate things, or of the humblest of the lower animals. Here
1190 III, 7 | tale of glory, and that of humiliation for a tale of and so in
1191 II, 2 | with those who reply with humorous levity when we are speaking
1192 II, 21| same time how we are to hunt down the maxims required.
1193 II, 24| fails to say by whose hand a husband-slayer should die.~3. Another line
1194 III, 15| with Euripides’ reply to Hygiaenon, who, in the action for
1195 III, 11| so-and-so" may introduce a hyperbole under the form of a simile.
1196 II, 2 | they slight us. For, by our hypothesis, the anger caused by the
1197 III, 1 | altered its character. Just as iambics were adopted, instead of
1198 II, 24| lived by himself on Mount Ida: because lofty people do
1199 I, 9 | good-tempered one. We can always idealize any given man by drawing
1200 III, 11| states as "levelled" is to identify two widely different things,
1201 II, 21| Enthymeme; thus—~It makes them idle; and therewith they earn~
1202 II, 21| since both unpopularity and idleness are undesirable, I hold
1203 III, 4 | similes. Androtion said of Idrieus that he was like a terrier
1204 | ie
1205 II, 6 | all this shows a mean, ignoble disposition. Also, talking
1206 I, 10| are conscious-no one is ignorant of what he deliberately
1207 III, 15| this distinction may be ignored. Another way is to meet
1208 II | Book II~
1209 III | Book III~
1210 III, 19| well-disposed towards yourself and ill-disposed towards your opponent (2)
1211 II, 4 | to envy us—though without ill-feeling—either we like these people
1212 II, 2 | superior to others when ill-treating them. That is why youths
1213 II, 25| enthymeme having shown that ill-used men always hate their ill-users,
1214 II, 25| ill-used men always hate their ill-users, to reply, "That proves
1215 II, 21| and therewith they earn~Ill-will and jealousy throughout
1216 I, 15| forbids us ever to make illegal contracts. Or if a law is
1217 I, 9 | money for others’ good; illiberality is the opposite. Magnanimity
1218 II, 2 | angered by disregard of his illness, a poor man by disregard
1219 III, 2 | from something worse. To illustrate my meaning: since opposites
1220 II, 24| mentioned. This sort of argument illustrates what is meant by making
1221 I, 11| or expects something an image or picture of what he remembers
1222 II, 13| old men out of weakness, imagining that anything that befalls
1223 III, 1 | therefore ridiculous to imitate a poetical manner which
1224 I, 11| latter, even if the object imitated is not itself pleasant;
1225 III, 3 | soul’s desire was counter imitative" (this’s at one and the
1226 III, 9 | awarded the prize of valour immediately, and won the command of
1227 II, 8 | those who imagine themselves immensely fortunate-their feeling
1228 I, 13| stretcheth, and over the earth’s immensity.~And as Alcidamas says in
1229 II, 5 | remote but so near as to be imminent: we do not fear things that
1230 I, 1 | draw opposite conclusions impartially. Nevertheless, the underlying
1231 III, 3 | at a run", but "his heart impelling him to speed of foot"; not "
1232 I, 6 | where the penalty is either imperceptible or slight. Good, too, are
1233 I, 5 | of numerous and beautiful implements, live stock, and slaves.
1234 II, 21| is another which is more important-it invests a speech with moral
1235 III, 5 | his long circumlocutions imposes on his hearers; these are
1236 I, 12| letting them off altogether or imposing light sentences. They are
1237 II, 19| a rule, loves or desires impossibilities. That things which are the
1238 II, 24| absolutely. As, in eristic, the imposture comes from not adding any
1239 III, 17| maintain that a proposal is impracticable; or that, though practicable,
1240 III, 17| they have been favourably impressed by the speech on the other
1241 III, 16| are about. How easily such impressions may be conveyed we can see
1242 I, 9 | arrogant man is "superb" or "impressive". Those who run to extremes
1243 III, 6 | help to give your language impressiveness. (1) Describe a thing instead
1244 II, 2 | Anger may be defined as an impulse, accompanied by pain, to
1245 II, 12| but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep-rooted,
1246 II, 6 | those not open to the same imputation as ourselves: for it is
1247 I, 4 | sciences, the more we shall inadvertently be destroying their true
1248 III, 18| of questions owing to the incapacity of the audience to follow
1249 II, 3 | more, but we cease to be incensed against those who agree
1250 I, 10| nature and number of the incentives to wrong-doing; second,
1251 II, 6 | disposition. Also, talking incessantly about yourself, making loud
1252 I, 12| some credit (thus you may, incidentally, be avenging your father
1253 I, 5 | those from which we get our income; by "enjoyable", those from
1254 II, 22| refutative, by the conjunction of incompatible propositions.~We may now
1255 II, 23| a contemplated action is inconsistent with any past action, to
1256 I, 9 | pleasures are concerned; incontinence is the opposite. Liberality
1257 II, 23| Every one will agree that by incontinent people we mean those who
1258 I, 14| fact that makes the harm incurable, since legal punishment
1259 I, 14| or the harm done may be incurable-a difficult and even hopeless
1260 III, 10| reckoning is damage deservedly incurred.~
1261 III, 9 | it is just the reverse of indefinite; and moreover, the hearer
1262 III, 9 | just because it goes on indefinitely-one always likes to sight a
1263 I, 5 | combined with virtue; or as independence of life; or as the secure
1264 II, 21| explain what I mean by this, indicating at the same time how we
1265 III, 16| so. One such thing is the indication of moral purpose; the quality
1266 II, 6 | shamelessness as contempt or indifference in regard to these same
1267 I, 5 | means that its members are indigenous or ancient: that its earliest
1268 II, 9 | We will first consider Indignation-reserving the other emotions for subsequent
1269 III, 14| questions put to them, make indirect replies with long preambles.
1270 II, 2 | drinking when he is thirsty, or indirectly, the act appears to him
1271 II, 12| and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires,
1272 II, 4 | is always concerned with individuals-a Callias or a Socrates-whereas
1273 I, 1 | political oratory there is less inducement to talk about nonessentials.
1274 II, 20| will give the argument an inductive air, which only rarely suits
1275 I, 5 | soul, self-command and an industry that is not sordid. Communities
1276 I, 3 | their hearers to take an inexpedient course or not to take an
1277 I, 11| delight; the spectator draws inferences ("That is a so-and-so")
1278 II, 3 | that make us calm may be inferred by seeing what the opposites
1279 II, 24| genuine enthymeme: the hearer infers guilt or innocence, but
1280 I, 2 | individual cases are so infinitely various that no systematic
1281 I, 7 | blinding a one-eyed man inflicts worse injury than half-blinding
1282 I, 1 | themselves to be so much influenced by feelings of friendship
1283 III, 14| theme is given, intended to inform the hearers of it in advance
1284 II, 4 | all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be
1285 II, 23| honoured Pythagoras; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public
1286 III, 11| were the same, since the injured fly to both for refuge.
1287 I, 13| intention of keeping it and injuring the owner. And as with these
1288 III, 16| way in which we get some inkling of things we know nothing
1289 II, 3 | enjoying freedom from pain, or inoffensive pleasure, or justifiable
1290 III, 16| truth of her answers to the inquiries of the man who is seeking
1291 II, 15| will degenerate towards the insane type of character, like
1292 II, 23| with the commons had been inscribed on the slab."~25. Another
1293 III, 5 | caused if, when you intend to insert a number of details, you
1294 III, 5 | many connecting words are inserted in front of the one required
1295 II, 23| was argued that "if he had insisted on this before he helped
1296 I, 7 | pursue pleasure, and things instinctively desire pleasurable sensation
1297 I, 9 | observances have been devised and instituted to encourage or honour such
1298 I, 1 | based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom
1299 I, 1 | surely refuse to take his instructions from the litigants: he must
1300 I, 4 | rhetoric, but to a more instructive art and a more real branch
1301 II, 23| pleasure we feel is at our own intelligent anticipation; or those which
1302 III, 1 | is said does affect its intelligibility. Not, however, so much importance
1303 III, 12| not; the struggle is less intense and so the judgement is
1304 II, 1 | same thing with a different intensity: when they feel friendly
1305 I, 1 | decided, so that the judges, intent on their own satisfaction
1306 I, 9 | distinguished from others by being intentionally good, we must try to prove
1307 I, 13| the accused so much as his intentions, nor this or that detail
1308 II, 7 | simply to promote their own interest-this, as has been stated, is
1309 I, 14| promises, pledges, or rights of intermarriage between states-here the
1310 III, 1 | the two; of high, low, or intermediate pitch; of the various rhythms
1311 III, 16| oratory is not continuous but intermittent. There must, of course,
1312 III, 5 | and if there is a long interval before "set out", the result
1313 II, 4 | various forms-comradeship, intimacy, kinship, and so on.~Things
1314 III, 2 | like it, and set it more intimately before our eyes. Besides,
1315 III, 14| the subject is not long or intricate.~The other kinds of introduction
1316 III, 5 | another connective to be introduced before the one required.
1317 III, 19| wrongly recommend doing in the introduction-repeat your points frequently so
1318 I, 6 | receptiveness, quickness of intuition, and the like, for all such
1319 I, 2 | in consequence, whether invariably or usually, this is called
1320 II, 22| On the same principle, invectives are based on facts of the
1321 II, 20| easier to supply parallels by inventing fables, it is more valuable
1322 I, 15| your opponent; and that (to invert the remark of Xenophanes)
1323 I, 9 | our business is simply to invest these with dignity and nobility. "
1324 II, 18| what means speeches may be invested with the required moral
1325 III, 10| to everybody and needs no investigation), nor by those which puzzle
1326 II, 18| The manner and means of investing speeches with moral character
1327 II, 21| which is more important-it invests a speech with moral character.
1328 II, 24| might be maintained that an invitation to dinner is a great honour,
1329 II, 24| it was because he was not invited that Achilles was "angered"
1330 I, 9 | of greatness in matters involving the spending of money. The
1331 II, 22| Trojans, and Cycnus the invulnerable, who prevented all the Greeks
1332 I, 7 | gold is a better thing than iron, though less useful: it
1333 III, 18| gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself,
1334 III, 7 | under stress of emotion, or ironically, after the manner of Gorgias
1335 I, 2 | particular statement is true, is irrefutable. The other kind of Sign,
1336 II, 23| citizens as those who have done irreparable harm among the mercenaries?"~
1337 II, 3 | though the people were more irritated against him than against
1338 II, 18| concerned with Amplification is-as has been already said-most
1339 I, 7 | honourable the science itself is-in consequence. Again, that
1340 II, 21| a young man to use them is-like telling stories-unbecoming;
1341 I, 7 | beginning and the other thing is-on the ground that the end
1342 III, 1 | the day. Besides, delivery is-very properly-not regarded as
1343 III, 14| introduction to the Helen of Isocrates-there is nothing in common between
1344 II, 17| excellent quality that goes with it-piety, and respect for the divine
1345 II, 10| place and prosperity feel it-they think every one else is
1346 II, 12| what it means to be without it-this is the point of Pittacus’
1347 II, 6 | misconduct we should also feel it-those already mentioned; those
1348 II, 23| least literary of men; the Italian Greeks honoured Pythagoras;
1349 I, 1 | systematic principles of Rhetoric itself-of the right method and means
1350 II, 20| get on to your back with javelins in my hand". The horse agreed,
1351 II, 10| line:~Ay, kin can even be jealous of their kin.~Also our fellow-competitors,
1352 II, 21| therewith they earn~Ill-will and jealousy throughout the city.~Again,~
1353 II, 2 | those who laugh, mock, or jeer at us, for such conduct
1354 II, 2 | jeered at, we can ignore the jeering. Again, we are angrier with
1355 III, 16| expected. Thus Carcinus’ Jocasta, in his Oedipus, keeps guaranteeing
1356 II, 22| was not bound by oath to join it, and so on.~Here, again,
1357 III, 10| travelling money for the journey of war. Peitholaus called
1358 I, 11| and ~Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers~
1359 I, 15| We must argue that the juror’s oath "I will give my verdict
1360 I, 1 | of the assembly and the jury find it their duty to decide
1361 I, 3 | decides about future events, a juryman about past events: while
1362 I, 7 | would be the choice of the juster man. Again, the pleasanter
1363 II, 19| is utility, nobleness, or justice-it is clear that every orator
1364 I, 14| breaks the unwritten laws of justice-the better sort of man will
1365 II, 3 | inoffensive pleasure, or justifiable hope. Also when time has
1366 III, 18| of a question, you must justify your answer. Thus when Sophocles
1367 I, 4 | such matters a man must be keenly interested in the methods
1368 I, 1 | less, within the general ken of all men and belong to
1369 II, 23| some modification of the key-word, and arguing that what can
1370 III, 10| increasing it. So is "God kindled our reason to be a lamp
1371 II, 7 | in what frames of mind. Kindness-under the influence of which a
1372 II, 2 | said~Great is the wrath of kings, whose father is Zeus almighty,~
1373 I, 8 | are two forms of monarchy: kingship, which is limited by prescribed
1374 III, 6 | There is a little wind-swept knoll...~A subject can be developed
1375 I, 9 | vituperation is needed. Knowing the above facts, we know
1376 I, 11| wins) and also games like knuckle-bones, ball, dice, and draughts.
1377 I, 6 | also is good on which much labour or money has been spent;
1378 III, 18| better to do." Again, the Lacedaemonian, when he was being examined
1379 I, 6 | feel they ought to have but lack-such things may indeed be trifling,
1380 III, 8 | heroic has dignity, but lacks the tones of the spoken
1381 II, 21| possible. In such cases both laconic and enigmatic sayings are
1382 II, 23| woman, was thought to be the lad’s mistress because she embraced
1383 I, 11| he awakened~the love of lament.~Revenge, too, is pleasant;
1384 I, 11| pleasure even in mourning and lamentation for the departed. There
1385 III, 10| kindled our reason to be a lamp within our soul", for both
1386 III, 11| short-sighted man’s eyes are like a lamp-flame with water dropping on it,
1387 II, 23| Pythagoras; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras,
1388 III, 8 | with a long one, as~meta de lan | udata t ok | eanon e |
1389 III, 2 | oar, on Mysia’s coast he landed,~is inappropriate; the word "
1390 II, 22| prevented all the Greeks from landing, and again that he was the
1391 I, 3 | political, in ceremonial, and lastly in legal, oratory.~
1392 III, 1 | language made no progress till late in the day. Besides, delivery
1393 I, 2 | milk is a sign that she has lately borne a child". Here we
1394 II, 19| even if he means to do it later-for usually what we mean to
1395 I, 10| This shall be dealt with later-let us now deal first with the
1396 II, 3 | are amusing themselves or laughing or feasting; when they are
1397 II, 13| not disposed to jesting or laughter-the love of laughter being the
1398 I, 3 | consideration. Parties in a law-case aim at establishing the
1399 I, 1 | himself all such points as the law-giver has not already defined
1400 I, 15| binding, the law does make any lawful contract binding, and that
1401 I, 5 | ancient: that its earliest leaders were distinguished men,
1402 III, 4 | Antisthenes compared the lean Cephisodotus to frankincense,
1403 I, 11| is a so-and-so") and thus learns something fresh. Dramatic
1404 II, 19| toe-piece, and the upper leather can be made, then shoes
1405 II, 24| Another line consists in leaving out any mention of time
1406 I, 14| able to get his injurer legally punished, a fact that makes
1407 I, 1 | sensible persons and capable of legislating and administering justice
1408 II, 23| always a colt"; and of the legislator Draco that his laws were
1409 I, 13| partly is not intended by legislators; not intended, where they
1410 III, 17| affords few chances for those leisurely digressions in which you
1411 III, 9 | tetokenai,~all autou aitlon lelonenai,~and ~en pleiotals de opontisi
1412 II, 23| e.g. "He has never even lent any one a penny, but I have
1413 III, 10| taken out of the year". Leptines, speaking of the Lacedaemonians,
1414 I, 3 | smallness and the greater or the lesser-propositions both universal and particular.
1415 II, 23| should not sacrifice to Leucothea and mourn for her, he advised
1416 III, 11| And to speak of states as "levelled" is to identify two widely
1417 II, 2 | who reply with humorous levity when we are speaking seriously,
1418 II, 5 | terrible to us when we are liable to be wronged; for as a
1419 II, 23| Or— ~Since in this world liars may win belief,~Be sure
1420 II, 20| fables of Aesop, those from Libya). As an instance of the
1421 I, 10| that reason," since even licentious persons perform a certain
1422 II, 6 | others is as good as not be lieving you wrong. People are likely
1423 III, 16| all know the facts of his life-what you have to do is to apply
1424 I, 13| finger-ring on his hand when he lifts it to strike or actually
1425 II, 23| and Folly’s (aphrosuns) lightly begin alike,~and Chaeremon
1426 III, 2 | a thing in two different lights; so on this ground also
1427 II, 9 | of wealth, power, and the like-by all those things, roughly
1428 III, 4 | poets’ verses, which are likened to persons who lack beauty
1429 II, 23| Be sure of the opposite likewise-that this world~Hears many a
1430 III, 9 | the rhythm to go on to the limit his mind has fixed for it;
1431 III, 4 | then smear the children’s lips with the spittle. Antisthenes
1432 I, 3 | by the three classes of listeners to speeches. For of the
1433 III, 10| postponing them", for both literal postponement and the making
1434 I, 1 | his instructions from the litigants: he must decide for himself
1435 III, 10| Practising in every way littleness of mind" is metaphorical,
1436 III, 11| has these qualitis, the livelier it appears: if, for instance,
1437 I, 9 | thy tongue not burning,~No load of shame would on thine
1438 I, 7 | wood unshaven,~I carried my loads of fish from, Argos to Tegea
1439 II, 21| Stesichorus said to the Locrians, "Insolence is better avoided,
1440 I, 2 | clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human
1441 III, 9 | Which applies likewise to long-membered orators. Periods whose members
1442 III, 9 | fall into them first;~And long-winded preludes do harm to us all,~
1443 III, 3 | and the Odyssey "a goodly looking-glass of human life",’ talked
1444 II, 13| again, is the cause of their loquacity; they are continually talking
1445 I, 11| and not merely to "bad losers", but to every one; the
1446 I, 4 | too far. Thus, democracy loses its vigour, and finally
1447 II, 5 | amount to great pains or losses. And even these only if
1448 II, 6 | incessantly about yourself, making loud professions, and appropriating
1449 I, 2 | on enthymemes excite the louder applause. The sources of
1450 III, 1 | various emotions-of speaking loudly, softly, or between the
1451 I, 11| things; it is pleasant to love-if you love wine, you certainly
1452 I, 9 | or of the humblest of the lower animals. Here too we must
1453 I, 8 | it is those who have been loyal to the national institutions
1454 I, 10| wealth or poverty, of being lucky or unlucky. This shall be
1455 III, 8 | ones, as~Dalogenes | eite Luki | an,~and ~Chruseokom |
1456 II, 6 | acts of yielding to the lust of others are shameful whether
1457 II, 16| luxurious, because of the luxury in which they live and the
1458 II, 7 | who gave the mat in the Lyceum. The helpfulness must therefore
1459 III, 10| is a graphic metaphor. Lycoleon said, defending Chabrias, "
1460 II, 23| Lacedaemonians under those of Lycurgus, while at Thebes no sooner
1461 III, 11| colour, the exaggeration lying in the quantity of mulberries
1462 III, 12| used to do in the Old Men’s Madness of Anaxandrides whenever
1463 III, 12| it must be agreeable or magnificent, is useless; for why should
1464 I, 2 | about the properties of magnitudes, arithmetic about numbers,
1465 III, 9 | afterwards"; "to sail through the mainland and march through the sea,
1466 II, 24| charge-i.e. if he is a strong man-the defence is still that he
1467 II, 24| thief, since he is a vicious man-there is, of course, no valid
1468 III, 19| hearers. How this is to be managed-by what lines of argument you
1469 III, 1 | essentially, a matter of the right management of the voice to express
1470 II, 22| words in saying what is manifest. It is this simplicity that
1471 II, 24| Olympus call~The hound of manifold shape~That follows the Mother
1472 III, 10| condemned by the judgement of mankind", for a reckoning is damage
1473 II, 17| more ambitious and more manly in character than the wealthy,
1474 III, 16| s recklessness and rough manners. Do not let your words seem
1475 II, 23| case between the orator Mantias and his son, when the boy’
1476 III, 6 | and ~Here are my letter’s many-leaved folds.~(4) Do not bracket
1477 II, 22| Salamis, or the battle of Marathon, or what they did for the
1478 III, 8 | by his period-mark in the margin, but by the rhythm itself.~
1479 III, 2 | the celebrated riddle~I marked how a man glued bronze with
1480 I, 9 | first to be put up in the market-place. And we may censure bad
1481 III, 10| marrying—~My daughters’ marriage-bonds are overdue.~Polyeuctus
1482 II, 9 | parvenus, to make distinguished marriages. Indignation may therefore
1483 III, 10| way his daughters put off marrying—~My daughters’ marriage-bonds
1484 II, 23| the proverbial "buying the marsh with the salt". It is just
1485 I, 2 | for this reason rhetoric masquerades as political science, and
1486 I, 3 | are inevitably bound to master the propositions relevant
1487 I, 12| we admire or love, or our masters, or in general the people
1488 II, 7 | instance, the man who gave the mat in the Lyceum. The helpfulness
1489 II, 22| imaginary; these must be our material, whether we are to praise
1490 III, 16| pursued. Thus it is that mathematical discourses depict no character;
1491 III, 17| falsehoods about irrelevant matters-they will look like proof that
1492 I, 4 | potential, and also the mature of that actual and potential
1493 II, 21| character. So much for the Maxim-its nature, varieties, proper
1494 I, 5 | secure enjoyment of the maximum of pleasure; or as a good
1495 II, 23| Another line is to draw meanings from names. Sophocles, for~
1496 | meanwhile
1497 III, 9 | That is why verse, which is measured, is always more easily remembered
1498 III, 18| not by a curt answer. In meeting questions that seem to involve
1499 I, 2 | and so did Theagenes at Megara; and in the same way all
1500 III, 9 | Democritus of Chios jeered at Melanippides for writing instead of antistrophic
1501 I, 14| when Callistratus charged Melanopus with having cheated the
1502 III, 19| hearers, and (4) refresh their memories.~(1) Having shown your own