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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 5

Section 800 of 882

Canonical reference 3.17.5

Ancient Greek

ἔστιν δὲ τὰ μὲν παραδείγματα δημηγορικώτερα, τὰ δʼ ἐνθυμήματα δικανικώτερα· ἡ μὲν γὰρ περὶ τὸ μέλλον, ὥστʼ ἐκ τῶν γενομένων ἀνάγκη παραδείγματα λέγειν, ἡ δὲ περὶ ὄντων ἢ μὴ ὄντων, οὗ μᾶλλον ἀπόδειξίς ἐστι καὶ ἀνάγκη· ἔχει γὰρ τὸ γεγονὸς ἀνάγκην.

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

Examples are best suited to deliberative oratory and enthymemes to forensic. The first is concerned with the future, so that its examples must be derived from the past; the second with the question of the existence or non-existence of facts, in which demonstrative and necessary proofs are more in place; for the past involves a kind of necessity.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Les exemples conviennent le mieux à l'éloquence délibérative, et les enthymèmes à l'éloquence judiciaire. La première porte sur l'avenir, de sorte que ses exemples doivent être tirés du passé. La seconde porte sur l'existence ou l'inexistence des faits, matière où les preuves démonstratives et nécessaires sont davantage à leur place, car le passé comporte une sorte de nécessité.

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