‘And to those who are serious with the serious’ (earnest in anything—the opposite of those who joke παίζοντες, or use irony, when you are disposed to be serious, which makes you angry; c. 2 § 24); ‘because then you consider yourself to be treated seriously’ (which implies respect, that you are worthy of serious consideration), ‘and not with contempt’ (as in the other case, in which people seem to ‘make a joke’ of you). σπουδάζεσθαι and καταφρονεῖσθαι] On this formation of the passive, see Append. B on I 12. 22 (at the end of the notes to Book I).
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Aristotle. Edward Meredith Cope. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1877.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by professional data entry and has been proofread to a medium level of accuracy.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.