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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 19

Section 456 of 882

Canonical reference 2.2.19

Ancient Greek

τοῖς δὲ φίλοις, ἐάν τε μὴ εὖ λέγωσιν ἢ ποιῶσιν, καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐὰν τἀναντία, καὶ ἐὰν μὴ αἰσθάνωνται δεομένων, ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀντιφῶντος Πλήξιππος τῷ Μελεάγρῳ· ὀλιγωρίας γὰρ τὸ μὴ αἰσθάνεσθαι σημεῖον· ὧν γὰρ φροντίζομεν οὐ λανθάνει.

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

And they are angry with friends, if they neither speak well of nor treat them well, and in an even greater degree, if they do the opposite. And if they fail to perceive that they want something from them, as Plexippus in Antiphon's tragedy reproached Meleager; for failure to perceive this is a sign of slight; since, when we care for people, these things are noticed.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Et ils se mettent en colère contre leurs amis si ceux-ci ne parlent pas d’eux favorablement et ne les traitent pas bien, et plus encore s’ils font le contraire. Ils s’irritent aussi lorsque ceux-ci ne comprennent pas qu’ils attendent quelque chose d’eux, comme Plexippe le reprochait à Méléagre dans la tragédie d’Antiphon ; car ne pas s’en apercevoir est un signe de mépris, puisque, lorsque nous nous soucions des gens, ces choses ne nous échappent pas.

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