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Aristotle

Rhetoric Section 5

Section 828 of 882

Canonical reference 3.2.5

Ancient Greek

κλέπτεται δʼ εὖ, ἐάν τις ἐκ τῆς εἰωθυίας διαλέκτου ἐκλέγων συντιθῇ· ὅπερ Εὐριπίδης ποιεῖ καὶ ὑπέδειξε πρῶτος. ὄντων δʼ ὀνομάτων καὶ ῥημάτων ἐξ ὧν ὁ λόγος συνέστηκεν, τῶν δὲ ὀνομάτων τοσαῦτʼ ἐχόντων εἴδη ὅσα τεθεώρηται ἐν τοῖς περὶ ποιήσεως, τούτων γλώτταις μὲν καὶ διπλοῖς ὀνόμασι καὶ πεποιημένοις ὀλιγάκις καὶ ὀλιγαχοῦ χρηστέον (ὅπου δέ, ὕστερον ἐροῦμεν, τό τε διὰ τί εἴρηται·

English

J. H. Freese, 1926

Art is cleverly concealed when the speaker chooses his words from ordinary language and puts them together like Euripides, who was the first to show the way. Nouns and verbs being the components of speech, and nouns being of the different kinds which have been considered in the Poetics , of these we should use strange, compound, or coined words only rarely and in few places. We will state later in what places they should be used;

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

L’art est habilement dissimulé lorsque l’orateur choisit ses mots dans la langue ordinaire et les assemble à la manière d’Euripide, qui fut le premier à montrer la voie. Les noms et les verbes étant les éléments du discours, et les noms appartenant aux différentes espèces examinées dans la Poétique, nous ne devons employer parmi eux les mots étrangers, composés ou forgés que rarement et en peu d’endroits. Nous dirons plus tard dans quels endroits il faut les employer;

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