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And you should incidentally narrate anything that tends to show your
own virtue, for instance, “I always recommended him to act rightly,
not to forsake his children”; or the wickedness of your opponent, for
instance, “but he answered that, wherever he might be, he would always
find other children,” an answer attributed by Herodotus1 to the Egyptian rebels; or anything
which is likely to please the dicasts.
1 Hdt. 2.30. The story was that a number of Egyptian soldiers had revolted and left in a body for Ethiopia. Their king Psammetichus begged them not to desert their wives and children, to which one of them made answer （ τῶν δέ τινα λέγεται δέξαντα τὸ αἰδοῖον εἰπεῖν, ἔνθα ἂν τοῦτο ᾖ, ἔσεσθαι αὐτοῖσι ἐνθαῦτα καὶ τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκας）.
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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