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Aristotle, Rhetoric (ed. J. H. Freese), book 3, chapter 12 (search)
any things, all that the speaker said.Spengel's reading here is: polla\ dokei=: “u(perei=den o(/sa ei)=pon,” polla\ dokei= being parenthetical, and u(perei=don o(/sa ei)=pon part of the quotation. Jebb translates: “I came, I spoke to him, I besought” (these seem many things); “he disregarded all I said” (which certainly gives a more natural sense to u(perei=don). This also is Homer's intention in the passage Nireus, again, from Syme . . ., Nireus son of Aglaia . . ., Nireus, the most beautiful . . . ; Hom. Il. 2.671 ff. for it is necessary that one of whom much has been said should be often mentioned; if then the name is often mentioned, it seems as if much has been saidCope translates: “they think that, if the name is often repeated, there must be a great deal to say about its owner”; but can this be got out of the Greek (