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[10] But it is clear that one does not speak thus to the hearer
qua hearer;
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for all in their exordia endeavor either to arouse prejudice or to remove their own apprehensions:
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This is what those also do who have, or seem to have, a bad case; for it is better to lay stress upon anything rather than the case itself. That is why slaves never answer questions directly but go all round them, and indulge in preambles.
O prince, I will not say that with haste [I have come breathless].
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Why this preamble?
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Rhetoric. Aristotle. John Henry Freese (Translator). London. 1926.
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