Aristotle Rhetoric 3.7.9

John Henry Freese (Translator)

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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).) — 3.7.9 focus

Notes on the current edition

Rhetoric

1. The exaggeration should be brought forward first, by way of forestalling the objection, and accompanied by some limiting phrase. Quintilian ( Quint. Inst. Orat. 8.3.37 ) gives as examples: so to say, if I may be allowed to say so.