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2504 II, 1 | they think either something totally different or the same thing
2505 III, 16| face in her hands:~a true touch-people beginning to cry do put
2506 I, 15| men whether thick-witted, tough-skinned, or stout of heart endure
2507 I, 4 | which it is advantageous to trade.~But while he must, for
2508 III, 15| was not trembling, as his traducer maintained, in order to
2509 III, 1 | first poets acted their tragedies themselves. It is plain
2510 II, 12| in which they have been trained, and not yet believing in
2511 II, 21| other behaviour is that of a traitor": or we might put it, I
2512 III, 12| why should it have these traits any more than "restraint", "
2513 III, 4 | both are courageous, he has transferred to Achilles the name of "
2514 III, 9 | antistrophic stanzas—~He that sets traps for another man’s feet~Is
2515 III, 10| stripped themselves of their travelling money for the journey of
2516 I, 9 | man is cold-blooded and treacherous, and that the stupid man
2517 II, 22| he is attacking, such as treachery to the cause of Hellenic
2518 I, 13| that he has been guilty of "treason". Here therefore we must
2519 I, 5 | yourself; or when you find a treasure that everybody else has
2520 II, 20| peculations will empty your treasury completely."~Fables are
2521 I, 4 | agreements and commercial treaties may be made with the countries
2522 II, 2 | whom he has treated or is treating well, or means or has meant
2523 III, 3 | with boughs of the forest trees", and "he clothed" not "
2524 III, 15| Sophocles said he was not trembling, as his traducer maintained,
2525 I, 1 | Consequently if the rules for trials which are now laid down
2526 I, 12| they will settle for a trifle, and always be ready to
2527 III, 10| successes; it celebrates our triumph in the war as a whole";
2528 III, 8 | verse, which is one of the trochaic rhythms.~There remains the
2529 III, 8 | of his ordinary self. The trochee is too much akin to wild
2530 II, 22| Hector, the bravest of the Trojans, and Cycnus the invulnerable,
2531 II, 5 | shall die, but we are not troubled thereby, because death is
2532 II, 22| joined the expedition against Troy: these things are true of
2533 I, 6 | beginning:~And for Priam (and Troy-town’s folk) should~they leave
2534 III, 10| Iphicrates, indignant at the truce made by the Athenians with
2535 III, 2 | may describe a thing more truly than another, may be more
2536 III, 6 | proportional metaphors, as when the trumpet’s note is called "a lyreless
2537 III, 8 | makes the rhythm appear truncated. A sentence should break
2538 I, 12| They may be those who are trustful instead of being cautious
2539 III, 19| 1) Having shown your own truthfulness and the untruthfulness of
2540 II, 21| must express, as general truths, these same views on these
2541 I, 11| something fresh. Dramatic turns of fortune and hairbreadth
2542 III, 12| well suited for an actual tussle, and therefore contain many
2543 III, 11| but something that gives a twist to the word used; e.g. the
2544 I, 10| good. Irrational craving is twofold, viz. anger and appetite.~
2545 II, 23| Paris"; or "the sons of Tyndareus did no wrong, neither did
2546 III, 8 | long one, as~meta de lan | udata t ok | eanon e | oanise
2547 III, 2 | and the beauty, like the ugliness, of all words may, as Licymnius
2548 I, 4 | deliberate; matters, namely, that ultimately depend on ourselves, and
2549 I, 15| the duty of the judge as umpire is to decide what is just,
2550 II, 9 | Hence servile, worthless, unambitious persons are not inclined
2551 II, 4 | doing kindnesses; doing them unasked; and not proclaiming the
2552 I, 13| through the realms of the sky~Unbroken it stretcheth, and over
2553 I, 12| the penalty is small or uncertain or distant. It may be that
2554 II, 5 | are to feel the anguish of uncertainty, there must be some faint
2555 II, 4 | do not feel frightened or uncomfortable-nobody can like a man of whom he
2556 I, 2 | Argument, the nearer one comes, unconsciously, to setting up a science
2557 III, 7 | you become comparatively unconvincing.) Compound words, fairly
2558 II, 13| are sure about nothing and under-do everything. They "think",
2559 II, 23| withdrawal. This notion underlies the lines:~God gives to
2560 I, 1 | impartially. Nevertheless, the underlying facts do not lend themselves
2561 III, 11| instance, a man to start some undertaking in hope of gain and then
2562 II, 9 | by the prosperity of the undeserving but by that of people who
2563 II, 21| unpopularity and idleness are undesirable, I hold that it is better
2564 III, 12| and so the judgement is undisturbed. This is why the same speakers
2565 II, 6 | people makes us do or leave undone. And we feel more shame
2566 III, 2 | avoiding both meanness and undue elevation; poetical language
2567 III, 2 | give to everyday speech an unfamiliar air: people like what strikes
2568 I, 15| and that the risk of an unfavourable verdict is prefer, able,
2569 II, 17| those of the poor, the unfortunate, and the powerless, we have
2570 II, 4 | are, moreover, friendly or unfriendly to the same people; for
2571 I, 10| internal cause; they take place uniformly, either always or usually.
2572 III, 5 | plurality, fewness, and unity by the correct wording,
2573 II, 2 | since such a slight is unjustifiable. Also with those who reply
2574 III, 11| competition, still going about unkempt and unwashed. It is in these
2575 II, 7 | make our opponents appear unkind: we may maintain that they
2576 II, 8 | So much for Kindness and Unkindness. Let us now consider Pity,
2577 | unlikely
2578 III, 8 | unrhythmical language is too unlimited; we do not want the limitations
2579 I, 10| poverty, of being lucky or unlucky. This shall be dealt with
2580 II, 6 | submission to them is due to unmanliness or cowardice.~These things,
2581 III, 2 | poetry, are discordant and unmeaning. Further, in using metaphors
2582 III, 3 | and says "whetted with the unmitigated temper of his spirit".~(
2583 I, 7 | than another if it is more unmixed with pain, or more lasting.
2584 I, 11| forced on us; for force is unnatural, and that is why what is
2585 II, 24| every case-only when it is unprovoked.~9. Again, a spurious syllogism
2586 II, 6 | of unwillingness), since unresisting submission to them is due
2587 III, 8 | Cleon!" On the other hand, unrhythmical language is too unlimited;
2588 II, 2 | love or thirst or any other unsatisfied desires are prone to anger
2589 III, 9 | that subject. This style is unsatisfying just because it goes on
2590 III, 3 | form is the use of long, unseasonable, or frequent epithets. It
2591 III, 6 | mentioning anything ugly or unseemly, use its name if it is the
2592 II, 9 | must be due not to some untoward thing being likely to befall
2593 I, 2 | we assume an audience of untrained thinkers; those of the latter
2594 III, 2 | meaning is the same. This is untrue. One term may describe a
2595 II, 6 | opinions we quite look down as untrustworthy (no one feels shame before
2596 III, 19| own truthfulness and the untruthfulness of your opponent, the natural
2597 III, 11| going about unkempt and unwashed. It is in these respects
2598 II, 6 | force being an instance of unwillingness), since unresisting submission
2599 III, 1 | the subject of delivery, unworthy though it is, because we
2600 II, 19| the toe-piece, and the upper leather can be made, then
2601 II, 1 | they are both sensible and upright, but not well disposed to
2602 II, 23| which it is desirable to upset. But the use of such an
2603 III, 2 | third consideration-one that upsets the fallacious argument
2604 I, 15| opponent. Now for confirming or upsetting the credibility of contracts
2605 II, 13| that which we need most urgently. They are too fond of themselves;
2606 II, 6 | that they are able to give us-as a lover feels. We compete
2607 II, 8 | very closely related to us-in that case we feel about
2608 II, 2 | that they are slighting us-we do not fail to perceive
2609 I, 5 | the activity-that is, the use-of property that constitutes
2610 III, 6 | practice of Antimachus, too, is useful-to describe a thing by mentioning
2611 II, 12| or anything else by their usefulness to themselves. All their
2612 III, 7 | and discreet reluctance to utter a word when speaking of
2613 II, 21| neighbour". You are not to avoid uttering maxims that contradict such
2614 II, 22| needs as they emerge; not vaguely and indefinitely, but by
2615 III, 19| said so-and-so". Or "How vain he would have been if he
2616 III, 11| Thus,~Downward anon to the valley rebounded the boulder remorseless;~
2617 III, 10| instance, said that the vanishing from their country of the
2618 I, 2 | of the "contingent" or "variable". It bears the same relation
2619 III, 2 | the Art of Poetry. Such variation from what is usual makes
2620 III, 7 | else possesses.~All the variations of oratorical style are
2621 II, 15| of the earth, there is a varying yield; now and then, where
2622 III, 11| young men to use; they show vehemence of character; and this is
2623 II, 12| doing things excessively and vehemently. They disobey Chilon’s precept
2624 III, 3 | that comes from all this verbosity-for when the sense is plain,
2625 II, 2 | work with him, or otherwise vexes him while he is in this
2626 II, 12| qualities I mean virtues and vices; these also have been discussed
2627 II, 6 | persons, or lend ourselves to vile deeds, e.g. when we submit
2628 III, 12| effect; e.g. "This is the villain among you who deceived you,
2629 I, 12| accustomed to behave with violence to others. So too with those
2630 I, 4 | enough, but also by being too violently aquiline or snub arrive
2631 III, 3 | instance, talks of the "many visaged heaven" above the "giant-crested
2632 I, 13| goodness or badness, and is visited accordingly with censure
2633 I, 1 | a decision about his own vital interests. There is no need,
2634 I, 9 | treatment of censure and vituperation is needed. Knowing the above
2635 III, 10| would not always apply; a vivid metaphor, however; Chabrias
2636 III, 2 | Theodorus’ voice and the voices of all other actors: his
2637 I, 15| relations-those, namely, that are voluntary-are regulated by contracts,
2638 II, 23| boys men, you will next be voting short men boys". And Theodectes
2639 II, 16| display; ostentatious and vulgar, because, like other people’
2640 III, 17| important, successful, or vulnerable points in it, and thus inspire
2641 II, 2 | disregard of the war he is waging, a lover by disregard of
2642 I, 5 | Eulogy, and therefore we will wait to define it until we come
2643 I, 12| not pay to waste time in waiting for trial or damages, such
2644 I, 15| oracle about "the wooden wall" as a reason for engaging
2645 II, 24| a free man is an act of wanton outrage; but it is not so
2646 II, 21| attack a stronger force—~The War-God showeth no favour.~Or, if
2647 II, 13| that of the young, who are warm-blooded, their temperament is chilly;
2648 II, 13| Consequently they neither love warmly nor hate bitterly, but following
2649 II, 12| They are sanguine; nature warms their blood as though with
2650 I, 1 | or pity-one might as well warp a carpenter’s rule before
2651 III, 10| disease". Cephisodotus called warships "painted millstones". Diogenes
2652 III, 2 | using diminutives we must be wary and must observe the mean.~
2653 I, 7 | the men, when the burg is~wasted with ravening flame,~When
2654 I, 2 | them to be of this nature wastes his time in deliberation.~
2655 III, 8 | his attention, making him watch for metrical recurrences,
2656 I, 12| instead of being cautious and watchful, since all such people are
2657 I, 6 | another in either of two ways- (1) simultaneously, (2)
2658 II, 25| Topics, may be raised in four ways-either by directly attacking your
2659 I, 13| unjust acts in either of two ways-towards one definite person, or
2660 III, 14| merely has to do with the weak-minded tendency of the hearer to
2661 I, 12| That is what appeals to weak-willed persons—and weakness of
2662 II, 5 | have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience
2663 III, 17| of Goddesses...~Never, I ween, would Hera...~where the
2664 I, 9 | shame would on thine eyelids weigh;~What thou with honour wishest
2665 I, 15| evidence, to which great weight is often attached because
2666 I, 1 | justice and expediency. The weightiest reason of all is that the
2667 III, 7 | neither speak casually about weighty matters, nor solemnly about
2668 I, 4 | country’s laws that its whole welfare depends. He must, therefore,
2669 I, 7 | for the sake of physical well-being. And of two things that
2670 II, 12| therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.~
2671 III, 11| themselves on the ground". Well-constructed riddles are attractive for
2672 III, 19| must (1) make the audience well-disposed towards yourself and ill-disposed
2673 I, 1 | is of great moment that well-drawn laws should themselves define
2674 III, 12| likewise from Syme (three well-fashioned ships did bring),~Nireus,
2675 I, 1 | some states-especially in well-governed states-were applied everywhere,
2676 III, 15| profligate because I am well-groomed? Then so-and-so must be
2677 II, 25| That proves nothing, for well-used men do not always love those
2678 III, 7 | any exaggeration is the well-worn device by which the speaker
2679 I, 9 | things good and noble thou wert yearning,~If to speak baseness
2680 III, 9 | epeessin~At the end ~ouk wethesan auton paidion tetokenai,~
2681 II, 24| One variety of this is when-as in dialectic, without having
2682 | whence
2683 | wherein
2684 III, 3 | witlessness of nature", and says "whetted with the unmitigated temper
2685 I, 2 | enthymemes that has been wholly overlooked by almost everybody-one
2686 I, 13| law must be expressed in wide terms; and so, if a man
2687 III, 14| Olympic Speech, "You deserve widespread admiration, men of Greece",
2688 III, 8 | trochee is too much akin to wild dancing: we can see this
2689 III, 16| by moral purpose: e.g. "I willed this; aye, it was my moral
2690 III, 6 | Teumessus~There is a little wind-swept knoll...~A subject can be
2691 III, 2 | if we were mixing their wines for them. It is like the
2692 III, 11| both eyes and flame keep winking. A simile succeeds best
2693 I, 11| but to every one; the winner sees himself in the light
2694 I, 11| often happens that some one wins) and also games like knuckle-bones,
2695 I, 10| craving for good, i.e. a wish-nobody wishes for anything unless
2696 II, 6 | be seen by those who once wished themselves like us; for
2697 I, 9 | weigh;~What thou with honour wishest thou wouldst say.~Those
2698 II, 12| fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.~
2699 II, 23| order to cause pain by its withdrawal. This notion underlies the
2700 III, 10| the poet calls "old age a withered stalk", he conveys a new
2701 II, 6 | due to cowardice. Also, withholding a deposit or otherwise wronging
2702 III, 3 | toy for poetry" and "the witlessness of nature", and says "whetted
2703 I, 15| Other arguments about a witness-that he is a friend or an enemy
2704 II, 12| the bad, not having yet witnessed many instances of wickedness.
2705 II, 12| fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.~
2706 III, 9 | valour immediately, and won the command of the sea not
2707 III, 9 | divided, as in "I have often wondered at the conveners of national
2708 I, 15| quoted the oracle about "the wooden wall" as a reason for engaging
2709 III, 3 | Isthmian games", but "to the world-concourse of the Isthmian games";
2710 III, 18| you are felt to have been worsted. You cannot ask a series
2711 I, 15| worth or our opponent’s worthlessness. Other arguments about a
2712 I, 9 | with honour wishest thou wouldst say.~Those things, also,
2713 II, 20| a bodyguard, Stesichorus wound up a long talk by telling
2714 I, 13| that may be used to inflict wounds-a lifetime would be too short
2715 II, 23| ships to those who have wrecked other people’s ships, and
2716 I, 5 | and hold down is good at wrestling; he who can drive an adversary
2717 III, 5 | punctuation is hard, as in the writings of Heracleitus. To punctuate
2718 II, 5 | knowledge that we are not the wrongers but the wronged, and that
2719 I, 11| that remembers~All that he wrought and endured.~The reason
2720 II, 2 | father is Zeus almighty,~and ~Yea, but his rancour abideth
2721 I, 9 | good and noble thou wert yearning,~If to speak baseness were
2722 II, 24| evidence; which, again, yields no valid proof. Thus, it
2723 III, 10| that intercedes for him yonder".This was a metaphor for
2724 III, 4 | that flies at you and bites you-Idrieus too was savage now that
2725 II, 10| once. Hence old men envy younger men, and those who have
2726 II, 22| and again that he was the youngest man who joined the expedition,
2727 | yours
2728 I, 11| you think much inferior to yourself-e.g. children or animals-you
2729 II, 2 | ill-treating them. That is why youths and rich men are insolent;
2730 I, 12| your father or mother, like Zeno), whereas the punishment
2731 III, 9 | repeated, ~su d’ auton kai zonta eleges kakos kai nun grafeis