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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 8

Section 13 of 882

Canonical reference 1.1.8

Ancient Greek

περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἄλλων, ὥσπερ λέγομεν, δεῖ ὡς ἐλαχίστων ποιεῖν κύριον τὸν κριτήν, περὶ δὲ τοῦ γεγονέναι ἢ μὴ γεγονέναι, ἢ ἔσεσθαι ἢ μὴ ἔσεσθαι, ἢ εἶναι ἢ μὴ εἶναι, ἀνάγκη ἐπὶ τοῖς κριταῖς καταλείπειν· οὐ γὰρ δυνατὸν ταῦτα τὸν νομοθέτην προϊδεῖν.

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

All other cases, as we have just said, should be left to the authority of the judge as seldom as possible, except where it is a question of a thing having happened or not, of its going to happen or not, of being or not being so; this must be left to the discretion of the judges, for it is impossible for the legislator to foresee such questions.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13

Tous les autres cas, comme nous venons de le dire, devraient être laissés aussi rarement que possible à l'autorité du juge, sauf lorsqu'il s'agit de savoir si une chose s'est produite ou non, si elle se produira ou non, si elle est ou n'est pas telle. Cela doit être laissé à la discrétion des juges, car il est impossible au législateur de prévoir de telles questions.

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