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By common I mean, for instance, praising
Achilles because he is a man, or one of the demigods, or because he went on the
expedition against Troy; for this is
applicable to many others as well, so that such praise is no more suited to
Achilles than to Diomedes. By particular I mean what belongs to Achilles, but to
no one else; for instance, to have slain Hector, the bravest of the Trojans, and
Cycnus, who prevented all the Greeks from disembarking, being invulnerable; to
have gone to the war when very young, and without having taken the oath; and all
such things.
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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