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‘And rather inclined to courage (ἀνδρειότεροι τοῦ εἰωθότος, or τῶν ἄλλων); for they are passionate and sanguine, of which the one produces the absence of (or freedom from) fear, the other positive confidence: because on the one hand fear and anger are incompatible (II 3. 10, ἀδύνατον ἅμα φοβεῖσθαι καὶ ὀργίζεσθαι, 5. 21, θαῤῥαλέον γὰρ ἡ ὀργή), and on the other hope is a sort of good thing that inspires confidence’.
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
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