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1. To begin with it may be noted that the division laid down by Aristotle1 has met with almost
universal approval. It is to the effect that there are
some proofs adopted by the orator which lie outside
the art of speaking, and others which he himself
deduces or, if I may use the term, begets out of his
case. The former therefore have been styled ἄτεχνοι
or inartificial proofs, the latter ἔντεχνοι or artificial.
1 Rhet. i. ii. 2.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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