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[50] _E.g._ οἴδαμεν, ᾔδεις, and the remarkable εἰκότερον.
[51] _Vide supra_, p. 16. A striking example of the verbal periphrasis is
in Antiphon, _Herodes_, § 94: νῦν μὲν οὖν γνωρισταὶ γίνεσθε τῆς δίκης,
τότε δὲ δικασταὶ τῶν μαρτύρων· νῦν μέν δοξασταί, τότε δὲ κριταὶ τῶν
ἀληθῶν.
[52] _Rhet._, iii. 9. 1-2.
[53] _Rhet._, iii. 9. 3: λέξιν ἔχουσαν ἀρχὴν καὶ τελευτὴν αὐτὴν καθ’
αὐτὴν καὶ μέγεθος εὐσύνοπτον. _Ibid._, 5: εὐανάπνευστος.
[54] Herod., i. 16-17.
[55] _Id._, iii. 80-81.
[56] Arist., _Rhet._, iii. 9. 3.
[57] Dion., _de Lysia_, 6; ἡ συστρέφουσα τὰ νοήματα καὶ στρογγύλως
ἐκφέρουσα λέξις.
[58] See Verrall, _Rhyme and Reason_, in _The Bacchants of Euripides_.
[59] _Supra_, p. 20.
[60] Arist., _Rhet._, i.
[61] _E.g._, on the laws, _Herodes_, § 14, and _Choreutes_, § 2, where
the same passage of about eight lines occurs with only the alteration of
two or three unimportant words.
[62] Jebb (_Attic Orators_, vol. i. pp. 40-41) insists that the
prominence given to this kind of argument points to a deep religious
feeling in the orator’s heart. However, we meet with the same type of
argument in Aeschines, to whom no such depth of feeling is usually
imputed.
[63] Cf. the Demosthenic collection of προοίμια.
[64] προκατασκευή.
[65] διήγησις.
[66] πίστεις.
[67] ἐπίλογος.
[68] This is another characteristic of the earlier rhetoricians; _vide
supra_, p. 12.
[69] _Herodes_, § 26.
[70] The Introduction amounts to one-fifth of the whole speech.
[71] Ps.-Plut., _Lives of the Ten Orators_.
[72] _Attische Beredsamkeit_, vol. i. pp. 104-105.
[73] In the similar case discussed by Pericles and Protagoras, the third
possibility was considered—the guilt of the javelin. (Plut., _Pericles_,
ch. 36.)
[74] ἕνδειξις κακουργίας.
[75] _Supra_, p. 38 _sqq._
[76] _Soph. Elench._, 183 b. 32.
[77] 267 C.
[78] x. 416 A.
[79] _Rhet._, iii. 1. 7.
[80] The word seems to mean _powerful_ or _convincing_; whether τόποι
(_commonplaces_ or _passages_) or λόγοι (_arguments_) is the word to be
supplied, we cannot even conjecture.
[81] _de Isaeo_, ch. xx.
[82] _de Demosthene_, ch. iii.
[83] _Phaedrus_, 267 C (Jowett).
[84] Book I., 336B.
[85] _Rhet._, iii. 8. 4; iii. 1. 7. The _paeon_ = –⏑⏑⏑ or ⏑⏑⏑–.
[86] Cf. Aristoph., _Frogs_, 866: ἐβουλόμην μὲν οὐκ ἐρίζειν ἐνθάδε.
[87] Aesch. _in Ctes._, § 2.
[88] The reference by Arist., _Rhet._, ii. 23. 28 to ἡ πρότερον Θεοδώρου
τέχνη—the _earlier_ treatise of T.—implies others.
[89] Cf. Arist., _Rhet._, iii. 13. 4: διήγησις, ἐπιδιήγησις, προδιήγησις;
ἔλεγχος, ἐπεξέλεγχος.
[90] _Phaedrus_, 266 C, λογοδαίδαλος.
[91] Aristoph., _Clouds_, 109.
[92] Thuc., vi. 60.
[93] _de Myst._, §§ 61 _sqq._
[94] _Ibid._, § 4.
[95] Dion., _de Lysia_, ch. 2.
[96] Quint., xii. 10, 21.
[97] Philostratus, _vita Her. Att._, ii. 1, § 14.
[98] Hermogenes, περὶ ἰδεῶν, ch. xi. p. 416. Spengel (_Rhetores Graeci_).
[99] Ps.-Plut., _Lives of the Ten Orators_.
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