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1503 II, 13| The character of Elderly Men-men who are past their prime-may
1504 I, 9 | not easy to perform any menial task when one’s hair is
1505 I, 10| due to one of the causes mentioned-either reasoning or emotion: due,
1506 II, 10| are indeed the people just mentioned-we do not compete with men
1507 I, 13| appetites.) Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human
1508 II, 9 | least not pained, by their merited distress. Thus no good man
1509 III, 10| Dog called taverns "the mess-rooms of Attica". Aesion said
1510 III, 16| by the mere look of the messenger bringing news of them. Have
1511 I, 13| as Alcidamas says in his Messeniac Oration.... ~The actions
1512 III, 8 | ends with a long one, as~meta de lan | udata t ok | eanon
1513 III, 4 | the lion leapt", it is a metaphor-here, since both are courageous,
1514 III, 2 | proper or regular and the metaphorical-these and no others-are used by
1515 III, 11| used in a second sense or metaphorically, the joke is good if it
1516 I, 2 | what has been said in the Methodics applies equally well here;
1517 II, 24| what Polycrates says of the mice, that they "came to the
1518 II, 9 | him,~had he fought with a mightier one;~but also, even apart
1519 III, 5 | crossing the Halys will ruin a mighty realm.~Diviners use these
1520 III, 10| called warships "painted millstones". Diogenes the Dog called
1521 III, 10| to march to Euboea, "with Miltiades" decree as their rations".
1522 III, 17| side, I have justice on mine."~Political oratory is a
1523 I, 7 | than that chosen by the minority. For that which all desire
1524 II, 24| was the cause of all the mischief, "for after it the war occurred".~
1525 II, 6 | before those for whose own misconduct we should also feel it-those
1526 II, 22| Potidaea, &c.), or any other misdeeds of this kind that are recorded
1527 II, 20| able to get out, suffered miseries for a long time through
1528 III, 9 | again"; "of them perished in misery, others were saved in disgrace"; "
1529 III, 14| excite prejudice or to dispel misgivings is universal—~My lord, I
1530 I, 10| stupid man because he has misguided notions of right and wrong,
1531 II, 23| the care of men who have mishandled other people’s horses, nor
1532 I, 9 | enables an advocate to draw a misleading inference from the motive,
1533 II, 10| is our own fault we have missed the good thing in question;
1534 I, 5 | missile hits the next man and misses you; or when you are the
1535 I, 5 | has overlooked; or when a missile hits the next man and misses
1536 I, 2 | we have not yet acquired. Missing this distinction, people
1537 I, 15| bound to observe a bad and mistaken contract. Again, we may
1538 II, 23| thought to be the lad’s mistress because she embraced him;
1539 I, 15| guilt of perjury if they misunderstand what the law really means.
1540 III, 3 | any of four forms:~(1) The misuse of compound words. Lycophron,
1541 II, 6 | those who take us as their models; those whose teachers or
1542 II, 14| defects are replaced by moderation and fitness. The body is
1543 II, 17| dignity and therefore with moderation-dignity being a mild and becoming
1544 III, 19| why I said it". Or with modest irony, e.g. "He certainly
1545 II, 23| got by considering some modification of the key-word, and arguing
1546 III, 1 | things-volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm-that
1547 III, 10| eyesore of the Peiraeus." And Moerocles said he was no more a rascal
1548 III, 3 | not say "sweat", but "the moist sweat"; not "to the Isthmian
1549 III, 3 | but "the laws that are monarchs of states"; not "at a run",
1550 III, 11| a flute-player is like a monkey, or that a short-sighted
1551 II, 2 | him while he is in this mood, he is equally angry in
1552 | mostly
1553 III, 2 | when Orestes is called a "mother-slayer"; or a better one, as when
1554 II, 23| the Topics: "What sort of motion is the soul? for it must
1555 I, 13| to prefer arbitration to motion-for an arbitrator goes by the
1556 III, 17| fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other
1557 I, 12| by reference to whom we mould our lives. Also those whom
1558 II, 24| and lived by himself on Mount Ida: because lofty people
1559 II, 20| horse agreed, and the man mounted; but instead of getting
1560 I, 11| element of pleasure even in mourning and lamentation for the
1561 II, 24| e.g. the argument that the mouse must be a noble creature,
1562 II, 8 | them. And those who neither moved by any courageous emotion
1563 I, 5 | much as will not make one’s movements slower in consequence. Athletic
1564 III, 11| the same kind also is the much-praised verse of Anaxandrides:~Death
1565 III, 11| black eye" is compared to a mulberry because of its colour, the
1566 III, 2 | when the victor in the mule-race offered him a small fee,
1567 II, 9 | punishment of parricides or murderers. These are things we are
1568 III, 14| the Wrath...~Tell me, O Muse, of the hero...~Lead me
1569 II, 9 | justice is a finer thing than music.~Enough has been said to
1570 III, 14| for what is to follow. The musical prelude resembles the introduction
1571 II, 9 | contends with his superior; a musician, for instance, with a just
1572 II, 8 | companions), deformity, weakness, mutilation; evil coming from a source
1573 III, 16| records of the Egyptian mutineers. Slip in anything else that
1574 I, 7 | have learnt from none but mysell.~And the best part of a
1575 III, 2 | Telephus,~King of the oar, on Mysia’s coast he landed,~is inappropriate;
1576 I, 12| surely be the proverbial "Mysian prey". Or those who have
1577 II, 24| religious rites-for such the Mysteries are. Or one may introduce,
1578 II, 23| not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a
1579 III, 3 | his body" but "his body’s nakedness", and "his soul’s desire
1580 III, 6 | Describe a thing instead of naming it: do not say "circle",
1581 III, 16| We are not to make long narrations, just as we are not to make
1582 I, 4 | learn for what kinds of nation the various kinds of constitution
1583 III, 7 | sex, as man or woman; of nationality, as Spartan or Thessalian.
1584 I, 4 | the constitutions of other nations, and so to learn for what
1585 III, 1 | the one that comes first naturally-how persuasion can be produced
1586 III, 2 | naturally and not artificially. Naturalness is persuasive, artificiality
1587 II, 15| being true to the family nature-a quality not usually found
1588 II, 9 | who possess the goods of nature-noble birth, beauty, and so on.
1589 I, 5 | example those which are due to nature-though, to be sure, things due
1590 II, 12| neighbour by their own harmless natures, and so cannot think he
1591 III, 7 | speech-writers employ to nauseous excess, when they say "Who
1592 II, 22| strength, whether it was naval or military or both, and
1593 II, 5 | a mental picture of the nearness of what keeps us safe and
1594 I, 12| which may mean that you want necessaries, as poor people do, or that
1595 I, 12| himself, whether this means necessities or luxuries and materials
1596 I, 10| men, being able to command needless pleasures, do have an appetite
1597 I, 9 | if a man runs into danger needlessly, much more will he do so
1598 III, 6 | this method of treatment by negation either to good or to bad
1599 III, 6 | forming epithets out of negations. This device is popular
1600 II, 2 | due to negligence, and to neglect us is to slight us.~The
1601 II, 2 | being slighted; it is due to negligence, and to neglect us is to
1602 I, 13| to settle a dispute by negotiation and not by force; to prefer
1603 II, 11| can give enjoyment to our neighbours-wealth and beauty rather than health.
1604 I, 15| a friend or an enemy or neutral, or has a good, bad, or
1605 II, 9 | all are equally useful for neutralizing an appeal to pity.~We will
1606 II, 23| Demosthenes and the men who killed Nicanor; as they were judged to
1607 II, 24| fashionably and roams around at night, he is a rake, since that
1608 II, 13| and too little by what is noble-for the useful is what is good
1609 III, 14| audience whenever they began to nod". It is plain that such
1610 III, 5 | utterances are received with nods of acquiescence—~Croesus
1611 III, 7 | overwhelm their audience by mere noise.~Furthermore, this way of
1612 III, 3 | dithyrambs, who love sonorous noises; strange words for writers
1613 II, 9 | pleased by that thing’s non-existence or destruction. We can now
1614 II, 19| usual. The arguments for the non-occurrence of anything can obviously
1615 I, 1 | inducement to talk about nonessentials. Political oratory is less
1616 I, 4 | the aquiline and the snub nose not only turn into normal
1617 II, 7 | whether they know this or not-in either case the action is
1618 I, 7 | prized is better than what is not-the sort of thing that some
1619 III, 14| fit it on to the opening notes of the piece itself, so
1620 III, 7 | the same and yet nobody notices it. (To be sure, if mild
1621 III, 17| daughter in the lampoon~Think nought impossible at all,~Nor swear
1622 III, 11| expression. So with the "novelties" of Theodorus. In these
1623 III, 16| not many people know of...~Nowadays it is said, absurdly enough,
1624 I, 2 | magnitudes, arithmetic about numbers, and the same is true of
1625 III, 8 | all things; and it is the numerical limitation of the forms
1626 III, 9 | kai zonta eleges kakos kai nun grafeis kakos.~Of one syllable, ~
1627 III, 4 | the political orators to nurses who swallow the bit of food
1628 III, 17| clearly when the two are nut side by side.~The "Reply
1629 III, 8 | t ok | eanon e | oanise nux.~This kind of paean makes
1630 III, 8 | udata t ok | eanon e | oanise nux.~This kind of paean
1631 III, 2 | Euripides’ Telephus,~King of the oar, on Mysia’s coast he landed,~
1632 III, 3 | pauper-poet flatterer" and "oath-breaking and over-oath-keeping".
1633 I, 5 | maintenance; among foreigners, obeisances and giving place; and such
1634 II, 23| the Common Peace" means obeying orders. We are to make either
1635 I, 1 | his limbs. And if it be objected that one who uses such power
1636 II, 24| Hence people were right in objecting to the training Protagoras
1637 III, 15| that whereby you can dispel objectionable suppositions about yourself.
1638 III, 19| You must aim at one of two objects-you must make yourself out a
1639 I, 14| not one but many solemn obligations like oaths, promises, pledges,
1640 I, 1 | and have their judgement obscured by considerations of personal
1641 III, 17| the future; only about the obscurities of the past.) Besides, in
1642 I, 9 | it is on his account that observances have been devised and instituted
1643 III, 2 | may, then, start from the observations there made, including the
1644 I, 3 | things past or future, or an observer. A member of the assembly
1645 I, 3 | on the orator’s skill are observers. From this it follows that
1646 III, 14| stage, must clear away any obstacles, and therefore must begin
1647 II, 9 | one who is pained by the occurrence or existence of a given
1648 III, 5 | elthousa kai dialechtheisa ocheto)." (5) A fifth rule is to
1649 III, 2 | refused to write him an ode, because, he said, it was
1650 III, 2 | was so unpleasant to write odes to half-asses: but on receiving
1651 III, 3 | the power of law", and the Odyssey "a goodly looking-glass
1652 III, 16| Carcinus’ Jocasta, in his Oedipus, keeps guaranteeing the
1653 II, 4 | angry man pity those who offend him, but the hater under
1654 III, 2 | victor in the mule-race offered him a small fee, refused
1655 I, 4 | which the political orator offers counsel. For he does not
1656 II, 11| office. Holders of public office-generals, orators, and all who possess
1657 I, 8 | citizens distribute the offices of state among themselves
1658 II, 20| Socrates used: e.g. "Public officials ought not to be selected
1659 I, 2 | appears that rhetoric is an offshoot of dialectic and also of
1660 II, 24| That things improbable oft will hap to men.~For what
1661 I, 6 | behind them a boast;~and ~Oh, it were shame~To have tarried
1662 III, 5 | Having come, they struck me (oi d elthontes etupton me)."~
1663 I, 15| subsequent disputants on the same oints: thus Eubulus used in the
1664 III, 8 | as~meta de lan | udata t ok | eanon e | oanise nux.~
1665 II, 23| reared in salt water; and olive-cakes need oil, incredible as
1666 II, 23| previously consulted Zeus at Olympia, asked Apollo at Delphi "
1667 II, 24| blessed one!~Thou whom they of Olympus call~The hound of manifold
1668 III, 10| examined upon his share in the Olynthiac war, Cephisodotus was indignant,
1669 II, 21| favourable omens may quote~One omen of all is hest, that we
1670 II, 21| without obtaining favourable omens may quote~One omen of all
1671 III, 13| either state your case and omit to prove it, or prove it
1672 III, 4 | similes, with the explanation omitted, will appear as metaphors.
1673 II, 23| if even the gods are not omniscient, certainly human beings
1674 I, 15| the judges or not; and so on-these arguments are as obvious
1675 III, 8 | ratios comes the ratio of one-and-a-half to one, which is that of
1676 I, 12| litigious to prosecute any one-trifling wrongs, or wrongs for which
1677 II, 18| ceremonial speeches also; the "onlookers" for whom such a speech
1678 III, 11| the hearer imagined: thus~Onward he came, and his feet were
1679 I, 9 | noble cause; and if a man is open-handed to any one and every one,
1680 III, 9 | lelonenai,~and ~en pleiotals de opontisi kai en elachistais elpisin~
1681 II, 5 | always looking out for their opportunity. Also those who have done
1682 II, 2 | Whether, then, another man opposes him either directly in any
1683 III, 6 | achieve conciseness, do the opposite-put the name instead of the
1684 II, 12| wealth, power, and their opposites-in fact, good fortune and ill
1685 I, 15| Themistocles quoted the oracle about "the wooden wall"
1686 III, 5 | the actual number; and the oracle-monger is more likely to be right
1687 II, 5 | especially by signs and oracles. The fact is that anger
1688 I, 3 | there are three divisions of oratory- (1) political, (2) forensic,
1689 II, 23| Common Peace" means obeying orders. We are to make either such
1690 I, 13| provided for by written ordinances, the other by unwritten.
1691 III, 1 | disposal, which of all our organs can best represent other
1692 I, 7 | appears to be the cause and origin of important results. And
1693 I, 11| natural"; for instance, those originating in the body, such as the
1694 III, 7 | trivial ones; nor must we add ornamental epithets to commonplace
1695 I, 2 | education, sometimes from ostentation, sometimes owing to other
1696 I, 15| neither, or one without the other-that is, he may offer an oath
1697 III, 2 | metaphorical-these and no others-are used by everybody in conversation.
1698 I, 7 | earn greater honours than others-honour is, as it were, a measure
1699 II, 4 | opposite of what we wish for ourselves-and those who have the tact
1700 I, 5 | envy are, as a class, the outcome of good luck. Luck is also
1701 I, 4 | Supply: he must know what outlay will meet the needs of his
1702 I, 15| with him; and that it is outrageous for your opponents to refuse
1703 I, 12| speaking about, such as outrages done to the women in his
1704 III, 10| Besides, it does not say outright that "this" is "that", and
1705 I, 2 | speaker but are there at the outset-witnesses, evidence given under torture,
1706 II, 23| loss, provided the loss is outweighed by the solid advantage.
1707 III, 3 | and "oath-breaking and over-oath-keeping". Alcidamas uses such expressions
1708 II, 12| this, in fact, is why they overdo everything. If they do wrong
1709 II, 12| disobey Chilon’s precept by overdoing everything, they love too
1710 III, 10| daughters’ marriage-bonds are overdue.~Polyeuctus said of a paralytic
1711 III, 7 | why many speakers try to overwhelm their audience by mere noise.~
1712 I, 5 | using things rather than in owning them; it is really the activity-that
1713 III, 8 | Chruseokom | a Ekate | pai Dios.~The other paean begins,
1714 III, 9 | end ~ouk wethesan auton paidion tetokenai,~all autou aitlon
1715 I, 5 | quickly, or tardily but painfully. It arises both from the
1716 I, 6 | an act lies either in its painfulness or in the long time it takes.
1717 I, 5 | coming of old age slowly and painlessly; for a man has not this
1718 II, 5 | such as amount to great pains or losses. And even these
1719 II, 24| opponent’s. We do this when we paint a highly-coloured picture
1720 III, 10| Cephisodotus called warships "painted millstones". Diogenes the
1721 I, 11| be pleasant-for instance, painting, sculpture, poetry and every
1722 I, 15| argue when they occur in pairs, namely, when you are willing
1723 III, 12| words "Rhadamanthus and Palamedes", and also in the prologue
1724 II, 23| given. Thus a woman, who had palmed off her son on another woman,
1725 II, 23| Art of Rhetoric both of Pamphilus and of Callippus.~21. Another
1726 II, 24| the dog, the dog-star; or Pan, because Pindar said:~O
1727 I, 5 | both the last is a good pancratiast, while he who can do all
1728 III, 7 | does at the end of his Panegyric, with his "name and fame"
1729 III, 17| the Lacedaemonians in the Panegyricus, and upon Chares in the
1730 II, 8 | nor yet by great fear (panic-stricken people do not feel pity,
1731 III, 11| Stuck in the earth, still panting to feed on the flesh of
1732 III, 4 | children who take their pap but go on crying; and the
1733 III, 9 | beginning~agron gar elaben arlon par’ autou~and ~dorhetoi t epelonto
1734 III, 10| same word of those who "parade at the national festivals."
1735 III, 10| care not to hold too many "parades". Isocrates used the same
1736 III, 10| overdue.~Polyeuctus said of a paralytic man named Speusippus that
1737 III, 9 | and ~dorhetoi t epelonto pararretoi t epeessin~At the end ~ouk
1738 II, 21| more foolish than to be the parent of children." The orator
1739 II, 23| honours the wise". Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus,
1740 III, 9 | features together-antithesis, parison, and homoeoteleuton. (The
1741 III, 9 | the nature of antithesis. Parisosis is making the two members
1742 II, 23| also be used in a case of parity, as in the lines:~Thou hast
1743 III, 9 | period equal in length. Paromoeosis is making the extreme words
1744 II, 9 | pained by the punishment of parricides or murderers. These are
1745 II, 14| but by both; neither by parsimony nor by prodigality, but
1746 I, 1 | satisfaction and listening with partiality, surrender themselves to
1747 III, 17| other either completely or partially. Nor should you go after
1748 III, 16| then furnish it with such particulars as will be expected. Thus
1749 III, 9 | opposites, as "They aided both parties-not only those who stayed behind
1750 I, 12| friends or supporters or partners who do possess them: they
1751 II, 9 | for men of family, not for parvenus, to make distinguished marriages.
1752 I, 4 | re-fashioning them and shall be passing into the region of sciences
1753 III, 3 | be easily formed, like "pastime" (chronotribein); but if
1754 II, 20| stag and began to spoil his pasturage. The horse, wishing to revenge
1755 III, 11| they give the resemblance pat, as in~Those legs of his
1756 I, 13| benefits conferred; to be patient when we are wronged; to
1757 I, 2 | all of a given class of patients: this alone is business:
1758 III, 3 | shore"; and Gorgias of the "pauper-poet flatterer" and "oath-breaking
1759 II, 13| temperament is chilly; old age has paved the way for cowardice; fear
1760 II, 20| are not rich, and their peculations will empty your treasury
1761 III, 12| them. They have the further peculiarity of suggesting that a number
1762 III, 18| when Sophocles was asked by Peisander whether he had, like the
1763 I, 2 | despot. For in the past Peisistratus kept asking for a bodyguard
1764 III, 17| of Achilles, he praises Peleus, then Aeacus, then Zeus;
1765 III, 9 | imagine that Calydon is in the Peloponnesus.~A Period may be either
1766 III, 9 | Calydon’s soil is this; of Pelops’ land~(The smiling plains
1767 III, 16| when it is repeated to Penelope in sixty lines. Another
1768 II, 23| never even lent any one a penny, but I have ransomed quite
1769 II, 23| alike,~and Chaeremon writes ~Pentheus-a name foreshadowing grief (
1770 II, 23| name foreshadowing grief (penthos) to come.~The Refutative
1771 II, 23| It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate
1772 II, 23| the case of the woman of Peparethus it might be argued that
1773 I, 2 | demonstrated and completed (peperhasmeuou); for the word "perhas"
1774 II, 2 | s play; for this want of perception shows that they are slighting
1775 II, 24| Agathon says,~One might perchance say that was probable -~
1776 III, 11| good man and the square are perfect; but the metaphor does not
1777 I, 5 | should lack none of these perfections, in their women as well
1778 I, 10| means to an end, and are performed for that reason: "for that
1779 I, 2 | peperhasmeuou); for the word "perhas" has the same meaning (of "
1780 I, 15| not long ago appealed to Periander of Corinth in their dispute
1781 I, 11| hairbreadth escapes from perils are pleasant, because we
1782 III, 8 | by the scribe, or by his period-mark in the margin, but by the
1783 II, 6 | and saw those who were to perish with him covering their
1784 III, 4 | freshness has faded the charm perishes, and so with verses when
1785 I, 15| that men do not hesitate to perjure themselves; and that if
1786 I, 14| punished, as for example perjurers do-it is argued that a man
1787 I, 15| principles of equity are permanent and changeless, and that
1788 II, 17| great deeds that their power permits them to do. Responsibility
1789 III, 19| between the oration and the peroration. "I have done. You have
1790 II, 24| freedom was presumably not perpetual; it could only refer to
1791 III, 11| Or again: Boulei auton persai. In both these cases the
1792 II, 20| war against the king of Persia and not let him subdue Egypt.
1793 I, 15| tell the truth, sometimes persistently refusing to tell the truth,
1794 I, 12| confidence is greatest if they personally possess the advantages mentioned:
1795 I, 2 | there is somebody whom it persuades. But none of the arts theorize
1796 III, 12| by the rhythm, and by-the persuasiveness that springs from appropriateness.~
1797 II, 6 | Also, making profit in petty or disgraceful ways, or
1798 III, 14| finely says May I find in Phaeacian hearts, at my coming, goodwill
1799 III, 7 | and of the passages in the Phaedrus.~
1800 III, 16| Epic Cycle as treated by Phayllus, and the prologue to the
1801 III, 12| is the sort of thing that Philemon the actor used to do in
1802 II, 23| induce the Thebans to let Philip pass through their territory
1803 III, 17| what Isocrates does in the Philippus and in the Antidosis, and
1804 II, 3 | against another person. Hence Philocrates, being asked by some one,
1805 III, 11| that Niceratus is like a Philoctetes stung by Pratys-the simile
1806 III, 3 | He said, "Nay, shame, O Philomela". Considering her as a bird,
1807 II, 23| helped them against the Phocians, they would have promised
1808 II, 6 | dead-whence the proverb "He would pick a corpse’s pocket"; for
1809 I, 15| oath, you may argue that piety disposes you to commit the
1810 II, 15| start with to add to the pile, and good birth implies
1811 II, 10| those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom,
1812 III, 10| had fastened him in the pillory of disease". Cephisodotus
1813 I, 5 | either pull, push, lift, pin, or grip him; thus you must
1814 II, 24| dog-star; or Pan, because Pindar said:~O thou blessed one!~
1815 I, 15| offer the oath and for the pious man to accept it; and that
1816 III, 2 | other to dignify him. And pirates now call themselves "purveyors".
1817 I, 9 | of a man himself, you may pit him against others, which
1818 I, 6 | proverb about "breaking the pitcher at the door".~That which
1819 II, 23| what Androcles of the deme Pitthus said in his well-known arraignment
1820 I, 1 | him to anger or envy or pity-one might as well warp a carpenter’
1821 III, 14| poets, too, let us know the pivot of their play; if not at
1822 II, 1 | are feeling friendly and placable, they think one sort of
1823 III, 2 | scoffiet" for "scoff, and ‘plaguelet". But alike in using epithets
1824 III, 9 | Pelops’ land~(The smiling plains face us across the strait.)~
1825 I, 7 | been done if he had not planned it. On the other hand, when
1826 III, 16| the hearers to make better plans for the future. Or it may
1827 II, 19| Possible and Impossible. It may plausibly be argued: That if it is
1828 III, 14| speeches of display; as flute players play first some brilliant
1829 I, 1 | treatises on the way to plead in court. The reason for
1830 III, 17| Here ignorance cannot be pleaded, as it might if the dispute
1831 III, 17| the future, whereas the pleader deals with the past, which,
1832 I, 15| Antigone, where Antigone pleads that in burying her brother
1833 I, 15| no more than balance the pleas advanced on either side.~
1834 I, 11| acts of imitation must be pleasant-for instance, painting, sculpture,
1835 I, 11| Hence even being angry is pleasant-Homer said of wrath that~Sweeter
1836 I, 7 | the juster man. Again, the pleasanter of two things is the better,
1837 I, 11| appetite for being that. The pleasantness of victory implies of course
1838 II, 24| exiles can live wherever they please, and that such privileges
1839 I, 7 | things instinctively desire pleasurable sensation for its own sake;
1840 II, 2 | be attended by a certain pleasure-that which arises from the expectation
1841 I, 14| obligations like oaths, promises, pledges, or rights of intermarriage
1842 III, 9 | aitlon lelonenai,~and ~en pleiotals de opontisi kai en elachistais
1843 II, 2 | our needs, which is why Plexippus is angry with Meleager in
1844 I, 7 | to do it; men, said he, plot a thing only in order to
1845 I, 12| slow, as those think who plunder the Carthaginians. They
1846 III, 2 | took" a thing, or that he "plundered" his victim. An expression
1847 III, 6 | poetical effects. (3) Use plural for singular, as in poetry,
1848 III, 5 | fifth rule is to express plurality, fewness, and unity by the
1849 I, 7 | as being that other thing plus something more, and that
1850 II, 6 | He would pick a corpse’s pocket"; for all this is due to
1851 III, 18| have been classified in the Poetics. Some are becoming to a
1852 III, 14| Now I beg you to note this point-it concerns you quite as much
1853 III, 13| otherwise the practice is pointless and silly, like the way
1854 III, 12| the man who swallowed a poker". So too with strings of
1855 III, 13| is a struggle between two policies. They may occur then; so
1856 II, 24| Thus Demades said that the policy of Demosthenes was the cause
1857 II, 24| it happens because of A. Politicians are especially fond of taking
1858 II, 23| always bold in battle"; of Polus, "you are always a colt";
1859 III, 14| a speech like Sophocles—~Polybus was my father...;~and so
1860 III, 10| marriage-bonds are overdue.~Polyeuctus said of a paralytic man
1861 I, 13| says that the burial of Polyneices was a just act in spite
1862 I, 2 | of persuasion which are popularly supposed to be demonstrative.~
1863 III, 2 | meaning is the same, e.g. "porheueseai" (advancing) and "badizein" (
1864 I, 4 | defensive force and the positions of the forts-this last means
1865 I, 11| confer a benefit implies both posses sion and superiority, both
1866 I, 11| a man see himself as the possessor of goodness, a thing that
1867 III, 13| narration" proper from "post-narration" and "pre-narration", and "
1868 II, 19| beginning. That if that which is posterior in essence or in order of
1869 I, 11| contemporaries better than posterity; sensible persons better
1870 I, 12| damages, or can at least postpone doing so for a long time:
1871 I, 12| off a trial, or have it postponed, or corrupt your judges:
1872 III, 10| them", for both literal postponement and the making of such a
1873 III, 10| end to our wars, but only postponing them", for both literal
1874 II, 22| the barbarians (Aegina, Potidaea, &c.), or any other misdeeds
1875 II, 20| the assembly at Samos a poular leader who was being tried
1876 II, 17| the unfortunate, and the powerless, we have only to ask what
1877 II, 11| and all who possess such powers-can do many people a good turn.
1878 I, 1 | better are, by their nature, practically always easier to prove and
1879 I, 1 | less given to unscrupulous practices than forensic, because it
1880 III, 11| who had been beaten by Pratys in a recitation competition,
1881 III, 11| like a Philoctetes stung by Pratys-the simile made by Thrasyniachus
1882 III, 13| from "post-narration" and "pre-narration", and "refutation" from "
1883 III, 14| indirect replies with long preambles. The means of exciting in
1884 II, 20| evidence. They should not precede the Enthymemes: that will
1885 III, 5 | particular word belongs to what precedes or what follows it. Thus,
1886 II, 12| vehemently. They disobey Chilon’s precept by overdoing everything,
1887 III, 5 | matter in hand because their predictions are thus, as a rule, less
1888 II, 2 | are wanting. Each man is predisposed, by the emotion now controlling
1889 II, 7 | helpfulness must therefore meet, preferably, just this kind of need;
1890 I, 15| by the unwritten law in preference to the written. Or perhaps
1891 III, 9 | harm to us all,~But the preluder catches it worst.~Which
1892 II, 19| produced without art or preparation, it can be produced still
1893 II, 20| may argue thus: "We must prepare for war against the king
1894 I, 1 | think that the laws should prescribe such rules, but some, as
1895 I, 2 | effects, as we maintain, that present-day writers on rhetoric direct
1896 II, 20| a field all to himself. Presently there came a stag and began
1897 I, 5 | good refers either to the preservation of life and the means of
1898 I, 7 | which tends to produce or preserve such goods, or is always
1899 III, 12| this one passage, and has preserved his memory, though he nowhere
1900 II, 24| choose: here the freedom was presumably not perpetual; it could
1901 I, 12| those who their injurer can pretend have, themselves or through
1902 III, 5 | have nothing to say but are pretending to mean something. Such
1903 III, 11| Thracian slavey"), where he pretends to mean Thratteis su ("you
1904 II, 23| that of the defendant, a pretension which it is desirable to
1905 I, 12| wickedness needs but a pretext". A man may wrong his enemies,
1906 II, 4 | fun of as well as do it prettily themselves. And we also
1907 I, 12| be the proverbial "Mysian prey". Or those who have either
1908 II, 2 | their philosophy; those who pride themselves upon their appearance
1909 II, 23| opposites. For instance, the priestess enjoined upon her son not
1910 II, 13| Men-men who are past their prime-may be said to be formed for
1911 I, 9 | husband, whose~brethren were princes all.~Since we praise a man
1912 II, 19| being, so can that which is prior: thus if a man can come
1913 I, 14| those on whose account the prison was built: or if a crime
1914 I, 15| the above discussion is probably sufficient.~As to witnesses,
1915 I, 15| credibility of contracts the procedure is just the same as for
1916 III, 18| supernatural power, Socrates proceeded to to ask whether "supernatural
1917 I, 2 | next step is to define the processes themselves more clearly.~
1918 II, 4 | doing them unasked; and not proclaiming the fact when they are done,
1919 III, 14| for wonder. This is what Prodicus called "slipping in a bit
1920 II, 14| neither by parsimony nor by prodigality, but by what is fit and
1921 III, 3 | Lycophron talks of "the prodigious Xerxes" and "spoliative
1922 II, 19| the first step in whose production depends on men or things
1923 II, 23| example: "What temple has he profaned? What gods recognized by
1924 II, 10| are not. So also those who profess wisdom; they are ambitious
1925 II, 23| about the value of the whole profession of philosophy." Or, "to
1926 II, 6 | about yourself, making loud professions, and appropriating the merits
1927 I, 2 | political science, and the professors of it as political experts-sometimes
1928 I, 13| just act in spite of the prohibition: she means that it was just
1929 II, 18| may hope to complete the project with which we set out. Of
1930 III, 12| appropriate"? If it is prolix, it is not clear; nor yet
1931 I, 11| anything causes the excessive prolongation of a settled condition:
1932 II, 23| Phocians, they would have promised to do it. It is monstrous,
1933 II, 7 | have been helpful simply to promote their own interest-this,
1934 I, 7 | for example, that which promotes life, good life, pleasure,
1935 I, 7 | doer was worse than the prompter, since there would have
1936 II, 19| or anger, or calculation, prompting it. That the thing will
1937 III, 10| make us seize a new idea promptly. For this reason people
1938 II, 2 | unsatisfied desires are prone to anger and easily roused:
1939 III, 12| whenever he pronounced the pronoun "I". If one does not deliver
1940 II, 1 | a political measure, in pronouncing eulogies or censures, and
1941 III, 1 | Besides, delivery is-very properly-not regarded as an elevated
1942 I, 7 | superiority of class over class is proportionate to the superiority possessed
1943 I, 3 | urging us to accept or reject proposals for action, in accusing
1944 III, 18| his opponent, "did not you propose the same measures as they?"- "
1945 I, 3 | or the harmfulness of a proposed course of action; if he
1946 III, 17| not so important as its proposer thinks. Note any falsehoods
1947 III, 1 | because they are the most prose-like of all metres, so tragedy
1948 I, 12| people, and yet have not prosecuted; such men must surely be
1949 III, 15| skilful and unscrupulous prosecutors. By mixing up the man’s
1950 I, 1 | lawgiver is not particular but prospective and general, whereas members
1951 I, 8 | institutions; of tyranny, the protection of the tyrant. It is clear,
1952 II, 24| language being the proper province of enthymeme, so that it
1953 II, 23| witnesses~Of Meleager’s prowess unto Greece.~Or the argument
1954 III, 19| hatred, envy, emulation, pugnacity. The lines of argument to
1955 I, 5 | do this, you must either pull, push, lift, pin, or grip
1956 III, 9 | and if meanwhile he is pulled back by the speaker’s stopping,
1957 III, 17| side by refuting them and pulling them to pieces beforehand.
1958 III, 5 | writings of Heracleitus. To punctuate Heracleitus is no easy task,
1959 I, 10| revenge for that of the punisher, to satisfy his feelings. (
1960 I, 2 | they are getting away from pure rhetoric or dialectic. This
1961 III, 16| they represent nobody as pursuing any end. On the other hand,
1962 III, 2 | pirates now call themselves "purveyors". We can thus call a crime
1963 I, 5 | this, you must either pull, push, lift, pin, or grip him;
1964 III, 14| suspense. Anything vague puzzles them: so give them a grasp
1965 II, 23| Italian Greeks honoured Pythagoras; the inhabitants of Lampsacus
1966 III, 11| more a saying has these qualitis, the livelier it appears:
1967 II, 23| trusted me all the more if my quarrel with the commons had been
1968 II, 4 | are not cantankerous or quarrelsome-such people are always wanting
1969 III, 7 | phrases as absurd as "O queenly fig-tree". To express emotion,
1970 II, 13| excites pity. Hence they are querulous, and not disposed to jesting
1971 II, 13| being the very opposite of querulousness.~Such are the characters
1972 III, 18| absurdity. Thus Pericles questioned Lampon about the way of
1973 I, 6 | strong memory, receptiveness, quickness of intuition, and the like,
1974 II, 3 | defined as a settling down or quieting of anger. Now we get angry
1975 I, 4 | and customs of different races. The political speaker will
1976 III, 3 | as "the soul filling with rage and face becoming flame-flushed",
1977 III, 11| ruin is like a house in rags, and to say that Niceratus
1978 II, 19| clouding over, it is likely to rain. That if the means to an
1979 III, 15| and in particular that it raises false issues, and that it
1980 II, 24| around at night, he is a rake, since that is the way rakes
1981 II, 24| rake, since that is the way rakes behave. Another similar
1982 III, 13| Rhetoric-"Secundation", "Divagation", "Ramification".~
1983 II, 2 | almighty,~and ~Yea, but his rancour abideth long afterward also,~
1984 I, 1 | people do this either at random or through practice and
1985 II, 6 | delicately brought up, of higher rank, or generally less capable
1986 II, 23| one a penny, but I have ransomed quite a number of you."~
1987 III, 16| the narration should be rapid. Remember what the man said
1988 III, 16| does not consist either in rapidity or in conciseness, but in
1989 I, 12| as where things that can rapidly be consumed like eatables
1990 II, 20| inductive air, which only rarely suits the conditions of
1991 I, 11| intervals has the value of rarity. Learning things and wondering
1992 III, 10| citizen he named, "whose rascality was worth over thirty per
1993 II, 23| Conon called Thrasybulus rash in counsel. And Herodicus
1994 III, 10| Miltiades" decree as their rations". Iphicrates, indignant
1995 III, 8 | respectively. Between the two last ratios comes the ratio of one-and-a-half
1996 I, 7 | the burg is~wasted with ravening flame,~When strangers are
1997 I, 4 | nature; for we shall be re-fashioning them and shall be passing
1998 III, 12| pass into the hands of a reader. This is just because they
1999 II, 24| a dog. Or that Hermes is readier than any other god to go
2000 I, 8 | actions as will lead to the realization of their ends. The end of
2001 I, 8 | interests which tend to realize the ideal of each constitution,
2002 III, 5 | Halys will ruin a mighty realm.~Diviners use these vague
2003 I, 13| all-embracing law, through the realms of the sky~Unbroken it stretcheth,