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that is
an attempt. It would however, in my opinion, be
truer to say that it is not our handling of the
subject, but the thing itself which we attempt which
should be called an ἐπιχείρημα, that is to say the
argument by which we try to prove something and
which, even if it has not yet been stated in so many
words, has been clearly conceived by the mind.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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