Such then are
the materials which we must employ in exhorting and dissuading, praising and
blaming, accusing and defending, and such are the opinions and propositions that
are useful to produce conviction in these circumstances; for they are the
subject and source of enthymemes,
which are specially
suitable to each class （so to say） of speeches.1
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1 This is Cope's interpretation. Jebb renders: “If we take each branch of Rhetoric by itself.” The classes are of course the deliberative, forensic, and epideictic.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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