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Wherefore those who practise this artifice must
conceal it and avoid the appearance of speaking artificially instead of
naturally; for that which is natural persuades,
but the
artificial does not. For men become suspicious of one whom they think to be
laying a trap for them, as they are of mixed wines. Such was the case with the
voice of Theodorus as contrasted with that of the rest of the actors; for his
seemed to be the voice of the speaker, that of the others the voice of someone
else.
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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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