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Aristotle
Rhetoric Section 3
Section 172 of 882
Canonical reference 1.2.3
Ancient Greek
τῶν δὲ διὰ τοῦ λόγου ποριζομένων πίστεων τρία εἴδη ἔστιν· αἱ μὲν γάρ εἰσιν ἐν τῷ ἤθει τοῦ λέγοντος, αἱ δὲ ἐν τῷ τὸν ἀκροατὴν διαθεῖναί πως, αἱ δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ λόγῳ διὰ τοῦ δεικνύναι ἢ φαίνεσθαι δεικνύναι.
English
J. H. Freese, 1926
Now the proofs furnished by the speech are of three kinds. The first depends upon the moral character of the speaker, the second upon putting the hearer into a certain frame of mind, the third upon the speech itself, in so far as it proves or seems to prove.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
Or les preuves fournies par le discours sont de trois sortes. La première dépend du caractère moral de l’orateur; la deuxième, de la disposition dans laquelle on place l’auditeur; la troisième, du discours lui-même, dans la mesure où il démontre ou paraît démontrer.
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