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2004 III, 3 | and evil the harvest you reaped". That is too much like
2005 II, 23| might seem for creatures reared in salt water; and olive-cakes
2006 II, 26| that our opponent has not reasoned correctly or has made a
2007 III, 17| fellow than as a subtle reasoner. Refutative enthymemes are
2008 III, 11| Downward anon to the valley rebounded the boulder remorseless;~
2009 III, 13| conflicting arguments, and recapitulation are only found in political
2010 III, 17| minds refuse a favourable reception to a person against whom
2011 III, 14| choose to make your hearer receptive; among others, giving him
2012 I, 6 | Further-good parts, strong memory, receptiveness, quickness of intuition,
2013 III, 4 | metaphor must always apply reciprocally to either of its co-ordinate
2014 II, 17| more supercilious and more reckless; but there is one excellent
2015 II, 5 | insolent, contemptuous, and reckless-the kind of character produced
2016 I, 15| tell the truth, sometimes recklessly making a false charge in
2017 III, 16| which shows the man’s recklessness and rough manners. Do not
2018 I, 10| good or pleasant; for I reckon among goods escape from
2019 II, 22| those whose authority they recognize: and there must, moreover,
2020 III, 16| will be of past events, the recollection of which is to help the
2021 II, 23| Acropolis, and of erasing the record in the time of the Thirty
2022 I, 11| has achieved the complete recovery of that natural state. Habits
2023 III, 8 | making him watch for metrical recurrences, just as children catch
2024 III, 2 | crimson-fingered" or, worse still, "red-fingered morn". The epithets that
2025 I, 15| written,~Pray thee, bid the red-haired Critias do what~his father
2026 I, 4 | existing wealth but also by reducing their expenditure. A comprehensive
2027 III, 13| epilogue being always a reduction in the apparent length.
2028 II, 13| speeches adapted to, and reflecting, their own character: and
2029 II, 23| they are for us, and to refrain from action if they are
2030 III, 19| in your hearers, and (4) refresh their memories.~(1) Having
2031 III, 11| injured fly to both for refuge. Or you might say that an
2032 I, 15| order to succeed. Thus your refusal, you argue, must be due
2033 III, 5 | happen, and therefore he refuses to add a definite date.
2034 II, 22| classify Objections and Refutations, showing how they can be
2035 III, 17| the emotions: "I do not regret it, though I have been wronged;
2036 I, 10| mean that written law which regulates the life of a particular
2037 I, 3 | in urging us to accept or reject proposals for action, in
2038 III, 8 | kinds of rhythm must be rejected in writing prose, partly
2039 I, 4 | in favour of adopting or rejecting measures regarding these
2040 I, 3 | do good; if he urges its rejection, he does so on the ground
2041 II, 23| Alphesiboea asks what he means, he rejoins:~They judged her fit to
2042 III, 16| make use of the emotions. Relate the familiar manifestations
2043 III, 11| and yet not obviously so related-just as in philosophy also an
2044 I, 15| Further, most business relations-those, namely, that are voluntary-are
2045 II, 11| for which our ancestors, relatives, personal friends, race,
2046 III, 7 | of disgust and discreet reluctance to utter a word when speaking
2047 III, 10| of them. We will begin by remarking that we all naturally find
2048 III, 14| introduction employed are remedial in purpose, and may be used
2049 I, 13| next, before going further, remind ourselves of what "being
2050 III, 13| does the Epilogue-it merely reminds us of what has been said
2051 III, 11| valley rebounded the boulder remorseless;~and ~The (bitter) arrow
2052 II, 5 | safe and the absence or remoteness of what is terrible: it
2053 I, 4 | increased if it is too small or removed if it is not wanted, and
2054 III, 12| being robbed of all dramatic rendering, fail to do their own proper
2055 III, 12| unconnected words, and constant repetitions of words and phrases, are
2056 I, 14| specially deliberate: or if the report of it awakes more terror
2057 II, 24| Another line consists in representing as causes things which are
2058 III, 7 | particular disposition, he will reproduce the corresponding character;
2059 III, 4 | do geometry. In Plato’s Republic those who strip the dead
2060 I, 15| any one who disregards or repudiates any contract is repudiating
2061 I, 15| repudiates any contract is repudiating the law itself. Further,
2062 I, 11| for them. Honour and good repute are among the most pleasant
2063 II, 23| Thebes, the judges were requested to decide whether it was
2064 III, 11| without being commonplace-two requirements not always satisfied simultaneously.
2065 I, 11| the words~Sweet "tis when rescued to remember pain,~and ~Even
2066 I, 4 | speaker will also find the researches of historians useful. But
2067 III, 11| acute mind will perceive resemblances even in things far apart.
2068 III, 14| the dithyrambic prelude resembling the introduction to a speech
2069 II, 9 | superior in some particular respect-whence the lines~Only from battle
2070 III, 10| rascal than was a certain respectable citizen he named, "whose
2071 I, 8 | and to discriminate their respective customs, institutions, and
2072 II, 17| power permits them to do. Responsibility makes them more serious:
2073 I, 10| of him; and so with the rest-any wrong that any one does
2074 III, 17| Again, sometimes you should restate your enthymemes in the form
2075 II, 25| Infallible Signs, and Enthymemes resting on them, by showing in any
2076 I, 9 | say to thee,~Only shame restraineth me,~Sappho wrote~If for
2077 III, 12| these traits any more than "restraint", "liberality", or any other
2078 III, 2 | later. The reason for this restriction has been already indicated:
2079 II, 5 | it always has the will to retaliate, and now it has the power
2080 II, 2 | must be such as are neither retaliatory nor profitable to the doers:
2081 [Title] | Rethoric~
2082 II, 5 | they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder either no chance
2083 II, 23| order to return; now we have returned, it would be strange to
2084 II, 7 | doing a favour, but merely returning one, whether they know this
2085 I, 4 | the country’s sources of revenue, so that, if any is being
2086 II, 22| great it is; what their revenues amount to; who their friends
2087 II, 5 | succeeded and never suffered reverses, or have often met danger
2088 III, 19| 4) Finally you have to review what you have already said.
2089 III, 19| The first step in this reviewing process is to observe that
2090 III, 12| whenever he spoke the words "Rhadamanthus and Palamedes", and also
2091 III, 13| invented names in his Art of Rhetoric-"Secundation", "Divagation", "Ramification".~
2092 I, 14| pity. There are also such rhetorically effective ways of putting
2093 I, 1 | rhetoric, however, the term "rhetorician" may describe either the
2094 III, 1 | modulation of pitch, and rhythm-that a speaker bears in mind.
2095 I, 4 | reduced. For men become richer not only by increasing their
2096 I, 12| shall be able to do many righteous acts; for we feel that we
2097 III, 16| arguments. Here, again, rightness does not consist either
2098 I, 14| oaths, promises, pledges, or rights of intermarriage between
2099 I, 5 | hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought
2100 I, 7 | estate from which he had risen. Again, what is natural
2101 I, 9 | get on with the higher he rises. Compare the saying of Iphicrates, "
2102 I, 15| do or do not share in the risks of the trial. By "ancient"
2103 III, 18| the way of celebrating the rites of the Saviour Goddess.
2104 II, 24| august of all religious rites-for such the Mysteries are.
2105 III, 15| Diomedes need not fear his rivalry.~
2106 II, 20| story: A fox, in crossing a river, was swept into a hole in
2107 I, 1 | as far as may be on the road to health; it is possible
2108 III, 11| and so in "But you must roam as free as a sacred victim";
2109 II, 20| on her. A hedgehog, while roaming around, noticed the fox;
2110 II, 24| dresses fashionably and roams around at night, he is a
2111 II, 2 | sort of insolence is to rob people of the honour due
2112 II, 20| swept into a hole in the rocks; and, not being able to
2113 III, 17| parties is necessarily a rogue. Here ignorance cannot be
2114 III, 2 | better, for instance, to say "rosy-fingered morn", than "crimson-fingered"
2115 III, 16| the man’s recklessness and rough manners. Do not let your
2116 II, 24| we never say "shares all round" except of him. Or that
2117 III, 17| form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either
2118 II, 8 | felt by those completely ruined, who suppose that no further
2119 III, 4 | holm-oaks, because they were ruining one another by civil wars
2120 II, 2 | demands the respect of the ruled, and the man who thinks
2121 II, 2 | he thinks he ought to be ruling. Hence it has been said~
2122 I, 9 | motive, arguing that if a man runs into danger needlessly,
2123 III, 7 | corresponding character; for a rustic and an educated man will
2124 II, 3 | Say that it was Odysseus, sacker of cities,~implying that
2125 III, 11| you must roam as free as a sacred victim"; and in~Thereas
2126 I, 5 | constituents of honour are: sacrifices; commemoration, in verse
2127 II, 18| Amplification is-as has been already said-most appropriate to ceremonial
2128 III, 9 | not long afterwards"; "to sail through the mainland and
2129 III, 12| also in the prologue to the Saints whenever he pronounced the
2130 III, 14| than that there should be sameness in the entire speech.~The
2131 III, 4 | prose. Pericles compared the Samians to children who take their
2132 III, 11| imagined the word would be "sandals". But the point should be
2133 III, 11| much as the dust~or the sands of the sea...~But her, the
2134 III, 3 | that are green and full of sap", and says "foul was the
2135 III, 17| and Archilochus in his satires. The latter represents the
2136 II, 6 | neighbours’ failings-people like satirists and writers of comedy; these
2137 III, 9 | perished in misery, others were saved in disgrace"; "Athenian
2138 II, 24| reasonings: as "some he saved-others he avenged-the Greeks he
2139 III, 18| celebrating the rites of the Saviour Goddess. Lampon declared
2140 III, 2 | their other resources are scantier than those of poets. Metaphor,
2141 II, 8 | chance are: friendlessness, scarcity of friends (it is a pitiful
2142 III, 10| words, too, ought to set the scene before our eyes; for events
2143 III, 12| assemblies is really just like scene-painting. The bigger the throng,
2144 I, 2 | order to carry out such a scheme, and did make himself a
2145 III, 3 | Xerxes" and "spoliative Sciron"; Alcidamas of "a toy for
2146 III, 2 | cloak", "scoffiet" for "scoff, and ‘plaguelet". But alike
2147 III, 2 | cloaklet" for "cloak", "scoffiet" for "scoff, and ‘plaguelet".
2148 II, 18| do something, as when we scold a man for his conduct or
2149 I, 2 | sufficient account of their scope and of how they are related
2150 I, 15| country to admit that one is a scoundrel". There are also those witnesses
2151 III, 16| instance, "he went away scowling at me". So Aeschines described
2152 III, 2 | calls poetry "Calliope’s screech". Poetry and screeching
2153 III, 8 | be indicated not by the scribe, or by his period-mark in
2154 I, 11| pleasant-for instance, painting, sculpture, poetry and every product
2155 I, 9 | whether we are addressing Scythians or Spartans or philosophers.
2156 III, 10| Epidaurus and the neighbouring sea-board, said that they had stripped
2157 II, 22| we knew nothing about the sea-fight at Salamis, or the battle
2158 III, 4 | Athenian people were like sea-sick men on board ship. Again,
2159 III, 3 | does not use them as the seasoning of the meat, but as the
2160 I, 5 | privileges; grants of land; front seats at civic celebrations; state
2161 II, 5 | anything horrible, those in the secret terrify us with the thought
2162 II, 23| those which they approve of secretly: openly, their chief praise
2163 II, 18| issues to be decided. In the section on political oratory an
2164 III, 8 | which metres are definite sections. Prose, then, is to be rhythmical,
2165 III, 16| inquiries of the man who is seeking her son; and so with Haemon
2166 | seemed
2167 II, 21| health for a man, as it seemeth to me,~this being the general
2168 | seeming
2169 II, 23| or those whom it is not seemly to gainsay, as the gods,
2170 I, 11| to every one; the winner sees himself in the light of
2171 III, 10| proportion as they make us seize a new idea promptly. For
2172 II, 20| therefore the present king seizes Egypt, he also will cross,
2173 I, 7 | useful surpasses what is seldom useful, whence the saying:~
2174 III, 15| must try to disparage it by selecting the worse motive of two,
2175 III, 8 | hearer out of his ordinary self. The trochee is too much
2176 I, 5 | beauty and stature; in soul, self-command and an industry that is
2177 I, 2 | either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to
2178 II, 16| spring from insolence or self-indulgence, e.g. those that end in
2179 I, 1 | friendship or hatred or self-interest that they lose any clear
2180 I, 6 | self-sufficing condition; or as self-sufficiency; or as what produces, maintains,
2181 I, 9 | individual interests are selfish. Noble also are those actions
2182 I, 5 | I mean giving it away or selling it. Wealth as a whole consists
2183 II, 23| Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least
2184 II, 23| having made the mistake of sending her children away. In defence
2185 I, 11| connected with taste and sex and sensations of touch in general; and
2186 II, 3 | he doeth despite to the senseless clay.~It is now plain that
2187 I, 12| prosecute an offender. Or sensitive people, who are not apt
2188 II, 13| sudden but feeble. Their sensual passions have either altogether
2189 I, 12| Aenesidemus is said to have sent the "cottabus" prize to
2190 I, 12| or that even if you are sentenced you can avoid paying damages,
2191 III, 5 | forgotten, and not be widely separated from it; nor, except in
2192 III, 5 | arrangement of them in the natural sequence which some of them require.
2193 II, 19| attempted. Of all these sequences some are inevitable and
2194 III, 18| worsted. You cannot ask a series of questions owing to the
2195 II, 20| even a single witness will serve if he is a good one. It
2196 II, 11| things that are useful and serviceable to others: for men honour
2197 II, 9 | thing is concerned. Hence servile, worthless, unambitious
2198 III, 10| people’s big stick", and Sestos "the corn-bin of the Peiraeus".
2199 II, 3 | calm may be defined as a settling down or quieting of anger.
2200 I, 10| be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature,
2201 I, 6 | good actions. They must be severally named and described elsewhere.
2202 III, 16| as "hissing with fury and shaking his fists". These details
2203 I, 15| and profitable, but that sham justice is not, and that
2204 II, 6 | in the honourable things shared by every one else, or by
2205 III, 9 | speaker’s stopping, the shock is bound to make him, so
2206 III, 11| came, and his feet were shod with his-chilblains,~where
2207 III, 3 | again the "strait-pathed shore"; and Gorgias of the "pauper-poet
2208 III, 11| like a monkey, or that a short-sighted man’s eyes are like a lamp-flame
2209 II, 23| law. The audience tried to shout him down when he observed
2210 III, 10| metaphor. "Till all Hellas shouted aloud" may be regarded as
2211 III, 14| bit of the fifty-drachma show-lecture for the audience whenever
2212 II, 21| stronger force—~The War-God showeth no favour.~Or, if he is
2213 II, 9 | lines~Only from battle he shrank with Aias Telamon’s son;~
2214 III, 10| emptied" their town into Sicily: this is a graphic metaphor. "
2215 I, 1 | be employed, on opposite sides of a question, not in order
2216 I, 15| dispute with the people of Sigeum; and Cleophon supported
2217 II, 23| are not obvious at first sight-for part of the pleasure we
2218 I, 15| character of those who have signed them or have the custody
2219 III, 9 | satisfying, because the significance of contrasted ideas is easily
2220 III, 2 | correspond to the thing signified: failing this, their inappropriateness
2221 III, 17| speaker has attacked the silliest argument first. So much
2222 I, 15| Or that justice is like silver, and must be assayed by
2223 II, 22| is manifest. It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated
2224 III, 17| will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each
2225 III, 6 | effects. (3) Use plural for singular, as in poetry, where one
2226 I, 11| benefit implies both posses sion and superiority, both of
2227 II, 23| Thou hast pity for thy sire, who has lost his sons:~
2228 III, 15| mother Hesione was Priam’s sister. Teucer replies that Telamon
2229 III, 11| metaphors: as the stone is to Sisyphus, so is the shameless man
2230 II, 3 | not bite people when they sit down. We also feel calm
2231 I, 9 | men to do noble deeds in situations of danger, in accordance
2232 III, 16| repeated to Penelope in sixty lines. Another instance
2233 I, 13| presented, such as the kinds and sizes of weapons that may be used
2234 I, 1 | produced will also be best skilled in the enthymeme, when he
2235 I, 13| through the realms of the sky~Unbroken it stretcheth,
2236 I, 15| discipline had long been slack in the family of Critias,
2237 II, 13| that their passions have slackened, and they are slaves to
2238 III, 14| just where there is least slackness of interest; it is therefore
2239 II, 23| been really or seemingly slandered, is to show why the facts
2240 I, 7 | of their foes,~When they slaughter the men, when the burg is~
2241 III, 11| Thratt’ ei su ("you Thracian slavey"), where he pretends to
2242 II, 24| Tis right that she who slays her lord should die.~‘It
2243 I, 11| relaxation, amusement, rest, and sleep belong to the class of pleasant
2244 II, 22| alone; such facts as that he slew Hector, the bravest of the
2245 II, 2 | There are three kinds of slighting-contempt, spite, and insolence. (
2246 III, 16| the Egyptian mutineers. Slip in anything else that the
2247 III, 14| is what Prodicus called "slipping in a bit of the fifty-drachma
2248 I, 12| are far off, vengeance is slow, as those think who plunder
2249 I, 5 | not make one’s movements slower in consequence. Athletic
2250 I, 5 | is the coming of old age slowly and painlessly; for a man
2251 II, 13| themselves; this is one form that small-mindedness takes. Because of this,
2252 III, 4 | food themselves and then smear the children’s lips with
2253 III, 9 | this; of Pelops’ land~(The smiling plains face us across the
2254 III, 16| alleged. He must therefor snot waste time about what is
2255 I, 15| 15~There are also the so-called "non-technical" means of
2256 II, 8 | character, disposition, social standing, or birth; for
2257 II, 4 | individuals-a Callias or a Socrates-whereas hatred is directed also
2258 III, 16| On the other hand, the Socratic dialogues do depict character,
2259 III, 16| to make the cake hard or soft: "What, can’t you make it
2260 III, 1 | emotions-of speaking loudly, softly, or between the two; of
2261 III, 9 | of Sophocles—~Calydon’s soil is this; of Pelops’ land~(
2262 II, 14| will be guided not by the sole consideration either of
2263 III, 5 | following fact leads to solecism, viz. that the sentence
2264 I, 4 | questions cannot be gained solely from experience in home
2265 I, 14| broken not one but many solemn obligations like oaths,
2266 III, 7 | about weighty matters, nor solemnly about trivial ones; nor
2267 III, 3 | persuasion of his words", and "sombre-hued is the floor of the sea".
2268 | someone
2269 II, 23| reply to Plato when he spoke somewhat too dogmatically, as Aristippus
2270 | somewhere
2271 III, 14| find—~Sing, O goddess of song, of the Wrath...~Tell me,
2272 III, 3 | of dithyrambs, who love sonorous noises; strange words for
2273 I, 15| we shall also appeal to soothsayers: thus Themistocles quoted
2274 I, 4 | like dialectic, partly like sophistical reasoning. But the more
2275 II, 23| condemned to death, neither are sophists". And the remark that "if
2276 III, 11| something unexpected, the soundness of which is thereupon recognized.
2277 III, 2 | metaphor is bad, because the sounds of "screeching", unlike
2278 III, 3 | says "foul was the deed you sowed and evil the harvest you
2279 II, 23| because within a small space it works out two opposing
2280 I, 11| the poet when he says~He spake, and in each man’s heart
2281 III, 2 | invented words must be used sparingly and on few occasions: on
2282 III, 14| without any preliminary sparring or fencing, he begins straight
2283 III, 7 | woman; of nationality, as Spartan or Thessalian. By "dispositions"
2284 I, 9 | addressing Scythians or Spartans or philosophers. Everything,
2285 III, 17| to talk about. For if he speaks of Achilles, he praises
2286 III, 11| and ~And the point of the spear in its fury drove~full through
2287 III, 1 | speech. We have already specified the sources of persuasion.
2288 II, 24| from not adding any clause specifying relationship or reference
2289 I, 7 | possessed by their largest specimens. Again, where one good is
2290 I, 11| here gives delight; the spectator draws inferences ("That
2291 II, 6 | Is it lest some of these spectators should see you to-morrow?"~
2292 III, 12| finished as a professional speech-writer; and Licymnius among the
2293 III, 7 | audience by a device which speech-writers employ to nauseous excess,
2294 III, 12| speeches: but not in spoken speeches-speakers use them freely, for they
2295 III, 10| of a paralytic man named Speusippus that he could not keep quiet, "
2296 I, 7 | authoritative in its own sphere. So, also, the more valuable
2297 III, 15| himself did not betray the spies to Priam. Another method,
2298 III, 4 | children’s lips with the spittle. Antisthenes compared the
2299 I, 5 | almost half of human life is spoilt.~The constituents of wealth
2300 III, 3 | prodigious Xerxes" and "spoliative Sciron"; Alcidamas of "a
2301 I, 1 | through practice and others spontaneously; and every one will at once
2302 II, 10| compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally
2303 III, 3 | appropriateness or, when spread too thickly, plainly reveal
2304 II, 2 | dripping with sweetness,~And spreads through the hearts of men.~
2305 I, 5 | and that from them have sprung many who were distinguished
2306 III, 11| stranger than Thou should’st.~Do not the words "thou
2307 III, 10| calls "old age a withered stalk", he conveys a new idea,
2308 III, 9 | instead of antistrophic stanzas—~He that sets traps for
2309 III, 9 | the same word is~axios de staoenai chalkous ouk axios on chalkou;~
2310 III, 17| law; and once you have a starting-point, you can prove anything
2311 III, 11| In these the thought is startling, and, as Theodorus puts
2312 III, 10| war. Peitholaus called the state-galley "the people’s big stick",
2313 I, 1 | which are now laid down some states-especially in well-governed states-were
2314 I, 14| of intermarriage between states-here the crime is worse because
2315 I, 1 | states-especially in well-governed states-were applied everywhere, such
2316 I, 12| you are found out you can stave off a trial, or have it
2317 III, 9 | time I as their guest did stay,~And they were my hosts
2318 III, 9 | parties-not only those who stayed behind but those who accompanied
2319 III, 9 | the contrasted words are "staying behind" and "accompanying", "
2320 II, 15| of the elder Dionysius; a steady stock towards the fatuous
2321 III, 2 | daughters of storm-footed steeds?~though of course they were
2322 II, 20| using the lot to select a steersman from among a ship’s crew,
2323 I, 7 | and inflexions of the same stem, what is true of one such
2324 II, 5 | We feel it if we can take steps-many, or important, or both-to
2325 III, 10| state-galley "the people’s big stick", and Sestos "the corn-bin
2326 II, 23| case between Ismenias and Stilbon, when Dodonis proved that
2327 I, 12| you equitably. You may be stimulated by being in want: which
2328 II, 2 | periods of life tend to stir men easily to anger, and
2329 I, 2 | hearers, when the speech stirs their emotions. Our judgements
2330 I, 13| a thing but not that he "stole" it; that he struck some
2331 III, 11| proportional metaphors: as the stone is to Sisyphus, so is the
2332 III, 4 | compared to curs which bite the stones thrown at them but do not
2333 III, 9 | pulled back by the speaker’s stopping, the shock is bound to make
2334 III, 9 | always likes to sight a stopping-place in front of one: it is only
2335 III, 9 | kind that has no natural stopping-places, and comes to a stop only
2336 II, 4 | do not nurse grudges or store up grievances, but are always
2337 II, 2 | with those who listen to stories about us or keep on looking
2338 II, 21| use them is-like telling stories-unbecoming; to use them in handling
2339 III, 2 | Hail to you, daughters of storm-footed steeds?~though of course
2340 I, 15| thick-witted, tough-skinned, or stout of heart endure their ordeal
2341 I, 12| anywhere-portable objects that you can stow away in small corners, or
2342 I, 12| things that can easily be stowed away almost anywhere-portable
2343 II, 23| citizens of such mercenaries as Strabax and Charidemus, as a reward
2344 III, 9 | plains face us across the strait.)~By a wrong division of
2345 III, 3 | giant-crested earth", and again the "strait-pathed shore"; and Gorgias of the "
2346 III, 12| of all that to Ilium’s strand).~If many things are said
2347 I, 4 | not wanted, and that the strategic points may be guarded with
2348 I, 9 | with famous men; that will strengthen your case; it is a noble
2349 III, 7 | should be used either under stress of emotion, or ironically,
2350 I, 13| realms of the sky~Unbroken it stretcheth, and over the earth’s immensity.~
2351 I, 13| man struck or gratify the striker himself. Nor does taking
2352 III, 6 | expressions such as the "stringless" or "lyreless" melody, thus
2353 III, 4 | Plato’s Republic those who strip the dead are compared to
2354 III, 10| sea-board, said that they had stripped themselves of their travelling
2355 I, 9 | are noble for which men strive anxiously, without feeling
2356 II, 5 | believe ourselves to be stronger-and we believe this if we have
2357 II, 13| also because we desire most strongly that which we need most
2358 III, 9 | and antithetical, like the strophes of the old poets. The free-running
2359 III, 9 | these passages have the structure described above. Such a
2360 III, 11| Flying on eagerly;~and ~Stuck in the earth, still panting
2361 III, 17| be acting just like some students of philosophy, whose conclusions
2362 III, 11| Niceratus is like a Philoctetes stung by Pratys-the simile made
2363 II, 19| to inferior, weaker, and stupider people, it is more so for
2364 II, 5 | evils, e.g. wickedness or stupidity, the prospect of which does
2365 I, 2 | here; in some oratorical styles examples prevail, in others
2366 II, 20| of Persia and not let him subdue Egypt. For Darius of old
2367 I, 2 | essentially disconnected subjects-right conduct, natural science,
2368 II, 6 | unwillingness), since unresisting submission to them is due to unmanliness
2369 III, 17| trust; proof of them is only submitted on those rare occasions
2370 I, 2 | everybody-one that also subsists between the syllogisms treated
2371 I, 1 | enthymemes, which are the substance of rhetorical persuasion,
2372 III, 17| honest fellow than as a subtle reasoner. Refutative enthymemes
2373 I, 1 | right method and means of succeeding in the object we set before
2374 III, 11| flame keep winking. A simile succeeds best when it is a converted
2375 III, 2 | We can hide our purpose successfully by taking the single words
2376 III, 17| Do not use a continuous succession of enthymemes: intersperse
2377 III, 2 | first to show the way to his successors.~Language is composed of
2378 II, 20| time full of me and not sucking much blood; if you take
2379 II, 13| Their fits of anger are sudden but feeble. Their sensual
2380 I, 14| crime to defend; or the sufferer may not be able to get his
2381 II, 8 | tokens and the actions of sufferers-the garments and the like of
2382 II, 8 | the like of those actually suffering-of those, for instance, who
2383 II, 8 | Further, since it is when the sufferings of others are close to us
2384 II, 21| silly and ill-bred: a fact sufficiently proved by the special fondness
2385 III, 12| the further peculiarity of suggesting that a number of separate
2386 III, 11| metaphor, for it at once suggests swiftness. So with Homer’
2387 I, 7 | secure has the advantage of suiting our wishes, being there
2388 III, 14| introduction wanted beyond a summary statement of your subject,
2389 I, 9 | that the arrogant man is "superb" or "impressive". Those
2390 II, 17| does indeed make men more supercilious and more reckless; but there
2391 I, 11| with those who are much our superiors in power. Some pleasant
2392 II, 20| our Examples as subsequent supplementary evidence. They should not
2393 I, 2 | mean such things as are not supplied by the speaker but are there
2394 I, 15| of Sigeum; and Cleophon supported his accusation of Critias
2395 I, 1 | that the facts are what the supporter of a measure maintains they
2396 II, 8 | obviously be capable of supposing that some evil may happen
2397 III, 15| difference whether such a supposition has been put into words
2398 III, 15| can dispel objectionable suppositions about yourself. It makes
2399 III, 11| of a word; this too is a surprise. You find this in verse
2400 III, 11| you harpplayer"), and surprises us when we find he means
2401 III, 16| must, of course, be some survey of the actions that form
2402 II, 2 | angry on this account if we suspect that we are in fact, or
2403 III, 14| of keeping their minds in suspense. Anything vague puzzles
2404 II, 13| distrustful and therefore suspicious of evil. Consequently they
2405 III, 12| becomes a case of "the man who swallowed a poker". So too with strings
2406 II, 20| a long time through the swarms of fleas that fastened on
2407 II, 12| sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence
2408 II, 20| in crossing a river, was swept into a hole in the rocks;
2409 III, 3 | itself, so numerous and swollen and aggressive are they.
2410 II, 22| the same as that between syllogistic proof and disproof in dialectic.
2411 I, 9 | particular people, and the symbols of what it specially admires,
2412 III, 12| writes,~Nireus likewise from Syme (three well-fashioned ships
2413 III, 2 | to mislead his hearers. Synonyms are useful to the poet,
2414 II, 6 | Euripides’ reply to the Syracusans): and such also are those
2415 I, 2 | deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing
2416 I, 7 | on a folk whose city~is ta’en of their foes,~When they
2417 II, 4 | ourselves-and those who have the tact to make and take a joke;
2418 III, 10| only come through natural talent or long practice; but this
2419 I, 5 | grows old either quickly, or tardily but painfully. It arises
2420 I, 6 | Oh, it were shame~To have tarried so long and return empty-handed~
2421 III, 3 | epithets of Alcidamas seem so tasteless; he does not use them as
2422 III, 3 | language imports absurdity and tastelessness into speeches, as well as
2423 III, 10| Diogenes the Dog called taverns "the mess-rooms of Attica".
2424 II, 23| command. Thus Diomedon, the tax-farmer, said of the taxes: "If
2425 II, 23| tax-farmer, said of the taxes: "If it is no disgrace for
2426 III, 1 | uses fine language when teaching geometry.~When the principles
2427 III, 17| may excite dislike, appear tedious, or expose you to the risk
2428 I, 7 | loads of fish from, Argos to Tegea town.~So Iphicrates used
2429 I, 2 | boundary") as the word "tekmarh" in the ancient tongue.
2430 I, 2 | kind is a "complete proof" (tekmerhiou); the fallible kind has
2431 III, 2 | like that of Euripides’ Telephus,~King of the oar, on Mysia’
2432 II, 6 | kind of evil-speakers and tell-tales. And before those who have
2433 II, 13| are warm-blooded, their temperament is chilly; old age has paved
2434 II, 23| provides an example: "What temple has he profaned? What gods
2435 I, 14| with having cheated the temple-builders of three consecrated half-obols.
2436 II, 24| beggars sing and dance in temples, and that exiles can live
2437 III, 10| to him, instead of a mere ten like his own".There is also
2438 I, 9 | of virtue are noble, as tending towards virtue; and also
2439 III, 1 | been studied by Glaucon of Teos among others.) It is, essentially,
2440 II, 23| each other, that has been termed divarication.~15. Another
2441 III, 4 | Idrieus that he was like a terrier let off the chain, that
2442 III, 9 | ouk wethesan auton paidion tetokenai,~all autou aitlon lelonenai,~
2443 III, 8 | dancing: we can see this in tetrameter verse, which is one of the
2444 III, 1 | were adopted, instead of tetrameters, because they are the most
2445 III, 6 | as he does in talking of Teumessus~There is a little wind-swept
2446 I, 2 | as he got it; and so did Theagenes at Megara; and in the same
2447 III, 3 | Others are too grand and theatrical; and these, if they are
2448 II, 23| And, again, to induce the Thebans to let Philip pass through
2449 I, 15| appeal to soothsayers: thus Themistocles quoted the oracle about "
2450 I, 12| they are now being wronged themselves-for it is felt that next to
2451 III, 4 | was let out of his chains. Theodamas compared Archidamus to an
2452 III, 9 | fully enumerated in the Theodectea.) There are also spurious
2453 I, 1 | divisions of a speech, is theorizing about non-essentials as
2454 I, 2 | possible. In the same way the theory of rhetoric is concerned
2455 III, 11| a sacred victim"; and in~Thereas up sprang the Hellenes to
2456 III, 16| bad as is alleged. He must therefor snot waste time about what
2457 | therein
2458 II, 21| It makes them idle; and therewith they earn~Ill-will and jealousy
2459 II, 23| was the father of her son Thettaliscus, and he was in consequence
2460 I, 9 | an honest fellow or the thick-skinned man a good-tempered one.
2461 I, 15| being that many men whether thick-witted, tough-skinned, or stout
2462 III, 3 | appropriateness or, when spread too thickly, plainly reveal the author
2463 I, 5 | ordinary people in height, thickness, and breadth by just as
2464 III, 12| professional writers sound thin in actual contests. Those
2465 | thine
2466 II, 12| themselves equal to great things-and that means having exalted
2467 II, 11| who have these and similar things-those already mentioned, as courage,
2468 III, 1 | subjects. These are the three things-volume of sound, modulation of
2469 I, 2 | an audience of untrained thinkers; those of the latter kind
2470 I, 14| his crime has led to the thinking-out and invention of measures
2471 II, 2 | from drinking when he is thirsty, or indirectly, the act
2472 II, 26| Enthymemes, and in general the thought-element the way to invent and refute
2473 III, 9 | Athens allows her allies by thousands to live as the foreigner'
2474 I, 7 | haling young children to thraldom,~(fair women to shame.)~
2475 III, 11| Pratys-the simile made by Thrasyniachus when he saw Niceratus, who
2476 III, 11| about Nicon the harpist Thratt’ ei su ("you Thracian slavey"),
2477 III, 11| where he pretends to mean Thratteis su ("you harpplayer"), and
2478 II, 23| therefore, that just because he threw away his advantage then,
2479 III, 12| scene-painting. The bigger the throng, the more distant is the
2480 III, 2 | metaphor, the one intended to throw dirt at the actor, the other
2481 III, 4 | them but do not touch the thrower, and there is the simile
2482 II, 6 | moral badness. Such are throwing away one’s shield or taking
2483 III, 4 | curs which bite the stones thrown at them but do not touch
2484 III, 9 | inquiry of Herodotus the Thurian." Every one used this method
2485 II, 4 | those who do not try to thwart us when we are angry or
2486 II, 2 | is another kind; it is a thwarting another man’s wishes, not
2487 II, 21| mean such sayings as "know thyself" and "nothing in excess")
2488 III, 9 | kakos.~Of one syllable, ~ti d’ an epaoes deinon, ei
2489 I, 5 | that particular place or time-for many gain honour for things
2490 II, 6 | who ask one for the first time-we have not as yet lost credit
2491 I, 15| nobly, while cowards and timid men are full of boldness
2492 II, 14| to rashness, nor too much timidity, but the right amount of
2493 III, 2 | torch-bearer". Both are religious titles, but one is honourable and
2494 II, 6 | spectators should see you to-morrow?"~So much for Shame; to
2495 III, 9 | have all these features together-antithesis, parison, and homoeoteleuton. (
2496 I, 11| hence ease, freedom from toil, relaxation, amusement,
2497 III, 10| off her hair beside the tomb of those who fell at Salamis,
2498 III, 12| there must be variety of tone, paving the way, as it were,
2499 III, 2 | appropriate, must sometimes be toned down, though at other times
2500 III, 17| Arguments-and in the Narration too-since these do express character: "
2501 II, 8 | is a pitiful thing to be torn away from friends and companions),
2502 II, 15| towards the fatuous and torpid type, like the descendants
2503 I, 15| laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, oaths.~First, then, let