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Aristotle
Rhetoric Section 6
Section 784 of 882
Canonical reference 3.16.6
Ancient Greek
ἀπολογουμένῳ δὲ ἐλάττων ἡ διήγησις· αἱ γὰρ ἀμφισβητήσεις ἢ μὴ γεγονέναι ἢ μὴ βλαβερὸν εἶναι ἢ μὴ ἄδικον ἢ μὴ τηλικοῦτον, ὥστε περὶ τὸ ὁμολογούμενον οὐ διατριπτέον, ἐὰν μή τι εἰς ἐκεῖνο συντείνῃ, οἷον εἰ πέπρακται, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἄδικον.
English
J. H. Freese, 1926
In defence, the narrative need not be so long; for the points at issue are either that the fact has not happened or that it was neither injurious nor wrong nor so important as asserted, so that one should not waste time over what all are agreed upon, unless anything tends to prove that, admitting the act, it is not wrong.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
Dans la défense, la narration n'a pas besoin d'être aussi longue. Les points en litige sont en effet soit que le fait n'a pas eu lieu, soit qu'il n'a été ni dommageable ni injuste, soit qu'il n'a pas l'importance alléguée. Il ne faut donc pas perdre du temps sur ce que tous reconnaissent, à moins qu'un élément ne tende à prouver que, même en admettant l'acte, celui-ci n'est pas injuste.
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