Aristotle, Rhetoric, John Henry Freese (Translator), 3.10.2

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[2] Let us therefore begin by giving a full list of them, and let our starting-point be the following. Easy learning is naturally pleasant to all, and words mean something, so that all words which make us learn something are most pleasant. Now we do not know the meaning of strange words, and proper terms we know already. It is metaphor, therefore, that above all produces this effect; for when Homer¹ calls old age stubble, he teaches and informs us through the genus; for both have lost their bloom.

Rhetoric. Aristotle. John Henry Freese (Translator). London. 1926.

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The "Art" of Rhetoric (English) (Aristotle. The "Art" of Rhetoric. Freese, John Henry, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1926 (printing).)

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Ῥητορική Perseus (Aristotle. Aristotelis Ars Rhetorica. Ross, William David, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press,1959 (printing).) — 3.10.2 focus

[2] εἴπωμεν οὖν καὶ διαριθμησώμεθα· ἀρχὴ δʼ ἔστω 10 ἡμῖν αὕτη. τὸ γὰρ μανθάνειν ῥᾳδίως ἡδὺ φύσει πᾶσιν ἐστί, τὰ δὲ ὀνόματα σημαίνει τι, ὥστε ὅσα τῶν ὀνομάτων ποιεῖ ἡμῖν μάθησιν, ἥδιστα. αἱ μὲν οὖν γλῶτται ἀγνῶτες, τὰ δὲ κύρια ἴσμεν· ἡ δὲ μεταφορὰ ποιεῖ τοῦτο μάλιστα· ὅταν γὰρ εἴπῃ τὸ γῆρας καλάμην, ἐποίησεν μάθησιν καὶ 15 γνῶσιν διὰ τοῦ γένους· ἄμφω γὰρ ἀπηνθηκότα.

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Rhetoric

1. Hom. Od. 24.213 ἀλλ’ ἔμπης καλάμην γέ σ’ ὀΐμαι εἰσορόωντα γιγνώσκειν. The words are those of Odysseus, whom Athene had changed into an old beggar, to Eumaeus, his faithful swineherd, in whose house he was staying unrecognized.

Aristotle Rhetoric 3.10.2

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