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It is evident that Rhetoric enjoys both these
advantages1—
for what has
been said in the Methodica2 holds good also in
this case—for rhetorical speeches are sometimes characterized by
examples and sometimes by enthymemes, and orators themselves may be similarly
distinguished by their fondness for one or the other. Now arguments that depend
on examples are not less calculated to persuade, but those which depend upon
enthymemes meet with greater approval.
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1 The employment of syllogism and induction, τὸ εἶδος τῆς ῥητορικῆς being taken as simply = ἡ ῥητορική. Another rendering is: “that each kind of Rhetoric （that which depends upon example or upon enthymeme） enjoys some special advantage.”
2 A lost treatise, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius in his Life of Aristotle, 24, and by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the first letter to Ammaeus, 6. It is supposed to have dealt with some branch of Logic.
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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