[3]
The
Greeks call this essential basis στάσις, a name which
they hold was not invented by Hermagoras, but
according to some was introduced by Naucrates, the
pupil of Isocrates, according to others by Zopyrus of
Clazomenae, although Aeschines in his speech against
Ctesiphon1 seems to employ the word, when he asks
the jury not to allow Demosthenes to be irrelevant
but to keep him to the stasis or basis of the case.
1 § 206.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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