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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 22

Section 138 of 882

Canonical reference 1.15.22

Ancient Greek

ἔτι δὲ πράττεται τὰ πολλὰ τῶν συναλλαγμάτων καὶ τὰ ἑκούσια κατὰ συνθήκας, ὥστε ἀκύρων γιγνομένων ἀναιρεῖται ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους χρεία τῶν ἀνθρώπων. καὶ τἆλλα δὲ ὅσα ἁρμόττει ἐπιπολῆς ἰδεῖν ἔστιν.

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

Further, most ordinary and all voluntary transactions are carried out according to contract; so that if you destroy the authority of contracts, the mutual intercourse of men is destroyed. All other arguments suitable to the occasion are easy to see.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

En outre, la plupart des transactions ordinaires et toutes les transactions volontaires s'effectuent conformément à un contrat, de sorte que, si vous détruisez l'autorité des contrats, vous détruisez les relations mutuelles entre les hommes. Tous les autres arguments adaptés à l'occasion sont faciles à discerner.

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