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At this point
there has been much disagreement, as to whether
these are parts or duties of rhetoric, or, as Athenaeus
believes, elements of rhetoric, which the Greeks call
στοιχεῖα But they cannot correctly be called elements. For in that case we should have to regard
them merely as first-principles, like the moisture, fire,
matter or atoms of which the universe is said to be
composed. Nor is it correct to call them duties, since
they are not preformed by others, but perform something themselves. We must therefore conclude that
they are parts.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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