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Aristotle
Rhetoric Section 9
Section 14 of 882
Canonical reference 1.1.9
Ancient Greek
εἰ δὲ ταῦθʼ οὕτως ἔχει, φανερὸν ὅτι τὰ ἔξω τοῦ πράγματος τεχνολογοῦσιν ὅσοι τἆλλα διορίζουσιν, οἷον τί δεῖ τὸ προοίμιον ἢ τὴν διήγησιν ἔχειν, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον μορίων· οὐδὲν γὰρ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἄλλο πραγματεύονται πλὴν ὅπως τὸν κριτὴν ποιόν τινα ποιήσωσιν, περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐντέχνων πίστεων οὐδὲν δεικνύουσιν, τοῦτο δʼ ἐστὶν ὅθεν ἄν τις γένοιτο ἐνθυμηματικός.
English
J. H. Freese, 1926
If this is so, it is obvious that all those who definitely lay down, for instance, what should be the contents of the exordium or the narrative, or of the other parts of the discourse, are bringing under the rules of art what is outside the subject; for the only thing to which their attention is devoted is how to put the judge into a certain frame of mind. They give no account of the artificial proofs, which make a man a master of rhetorical argument.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
S'il en est ainsi, il est évident que tous ceux qui déterminent précisément, par exemple, ce que doivent contenir l'exorde, le récit ou les autres parties du discours soumettent aux règles de l'art ce qui est étranger au sujet. Leur attention ne porte en effet que sur la manière de placer le juge dans une certaine disposition d'esprit. Ils ne rendent aucun compte des preuves relevant de l'art, lesquelles font d'un homme un maître de l'argumentation rhétorique.
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