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Another topic consists in making use of errors
committed, for purposes of accusation or defence. For instance, in the
Medea of Carcinus,1 some accuse Medea of having killed her
children,—at any rate, they had disappeared; for she had made the
mistake of sending them out of the way. Medea herself pleads that she would have
slain, not her children, but her husband Jason; for it would have been a mistake
on her part not to have done this, if she had done the other. This topic and
kind of enthymeme is the subject of the whole of the first
“Art” of Theodorus.2
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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