ἡ δὲ λέξις κ.τ.λ.] ‘The expression must be contradictory’ (the opposition of ἀντίφασις, κατάφασις and ἀπόφασις, positive and negative, Categ. c. 10, p. 11 b 19, the fourth kind of ‘opposites’ τὰ ἀντικείμενα), i.e. it must be positive in one, and negative in the other, ‘when the prohibitive and the non-prohibitive are interchanged’. This is the case in the two examples; the one forbids pride, the other recommends or praises it—in a sense, provided it be directed to proper objects: by ‘not forbidding’ it contradicts the other.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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