Potentially copyrighted passage
By consulting this text, you confirm that you may use it for personal and educational purposes. Do not reproduce its content. If the book helps you, buy it to support the author or rights holders.
Aristotle
Rhetoric Section 4
Section 738 of 882
Canonical reference 3.11.4
Ancient Greek
ποιεῖ δὲ καὶ ἐν ταῖς εὐδοκιμούσαις εἰκόσιν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀψύχων ταὐτά· κυρτά, φαληριόωντα· πρὸ μέν τʼ ἄλλʼ, αὐτὰρ ἐπʼ ἄλλα· Hom. Il. 13.799 κινούμενα γὰρ καὶ ζῶντα ποιεῖ πάντα, ἡ δʼ ἐνέργεια κίνησις.
English
J. H. Freese, 1926
In his popular similes also he proceeds in the same manner with inanimate things: Arched, foam-crested, some in front, others behind; for he gives movement and life to all, and actuality is movement.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
Dans ses comparaisons appréciées, il procède de la même manière avec les choses inanimées : Courbées, couronnées d’écume, les unes devant, les autres derrière ; car il donne à toutes mouvement et vie, et l’actualité est mouvement.
Concepts in this passage
Anger
View detailed page
Filter the library
Care of the soul
View detailed page
Filter the library
Fear
View detailed page
Filter the library
Justice
View detailed page
Filter the library
Reason
View detailed page
Filter the library
Rhetoric
View detailed page
Filter the library