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for they show vehemence. Wherefore those
who are in a passion most frequently make use of them: “
Not even were he to offer me gifts as many in number as the sand and
dust. . . but a daughter of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, I will not
wed, not even if she rivalled golden Aphrodite in beauty, or Athene
in accomplishments.1
”
（Attic orators are
especially fond of hyperbole.2） Wherefore3 it is unbecoming for elderly people to make use of them.
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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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