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Further, to each of these a special time is
appropriate: to the deliberative the future,1 for the speaker, whether he exhorts or
dissuades, always advises about things to come; to the forensic the past, for it
is always in reference to things done that one party accuses and the other
defends; to the epideictic most appropriately the present, for it is the
existing condition of things that all those who praise or blame have in view. It
is not uncommon, however, for epideictic speakers to avail themselves of other
times, of the past
by way of recalling it, or of the
future by way of anticipating it.
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1 In 1.6.I and 8.7 the present is also mentioned as a time appropriate to deliberative Rhetoric.
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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