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Aristotle
Rhetoric Section 17
Section 523 of 882
Canonical reference 2.23.17
Ancient Greek
ἄλλος ἐκ τοῦ ἀνάλογον ταῦτα συμβαίνειν, οἷον ὁ Ἰφικράτης, τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, νεώτερον ὄντα τῆς ἡλικίας, ὅτι μέγας ἦν λειτουργεῖν ἀναγκαζόντων, εἶπεν ὅτι εἰ τοὺς μεγάλους τῶν παίδων ἄνδρας νομίζουσι, τοὺς μικροὺς τῶν ἀνδρῶν παῖδας εἶναι ψηφιοῦνται, καὶ Θεοδέκτης ἐν τῷ Νόμῳ, ὅτι πολίτας μὲν ποιεῖσθε τοὺς μισθοφόρους, οἷον Στράβακα καὶ Χαρίδημον, διὰ τὴν ἐπιείκειαν· φυγάδας δʼ οὐ ποιήσεσθε τοὺς ἐν τοῖς μισθοφόροις ἀνήκεστα διαπεπραγμένους;
English
J. H. Freese, 1926
Another topic is derived from analogy in things. For instance, Iphicrates, when they tried to force his son to perform public services because he was tall, although under the legal age, said: If you consider tall boys men, you must vote that short men are boys. Similarly, Theodectes in his law, says: Since you bestow the rights of citizenship upon mercenaries such as Strabax and Charidemus on account of their merits, will you not banish those of them who have wrought such irreparable misfortunes?
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
Un autre lieu se tire de l'analogie entre les choses. Par exemple, lorsque l'on voulut contraindre le fils d'Iphicrate à accomplir des services publics parce qu'il était grand, bien qu'il n'eût pas l'âge légal, Iphicrate déclara : « Si vous considérez comme des hommes les garçons de grande taille, vous devez voter que les hommes de petite taille sont des garçons. » Pareillement, Théodecte dit dans sa loi : « Puisque vous accordez les droits de citoyenneté à des mercenaires tels que Strabax et Charidème en raison de leurs mérites, ne bannirez-vous pas ceux d'entre eux qui ont causé des malheurs aussi irréparables ? »
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