Aristotle, Rhetoric, John Henry Freese (Translator), 3.9.4

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[4] But the period must be completed with the sense and not stop short, as in the iambics of Sophocles,¹

This is Calydon, territory of the land of Pelops;

for by a division of this kind it is possible to suppose the contrary of the fact, as in the example, that Calydon is in Peloponnesus .

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).) — 3.9.4 focus

[4] δεῖ δὲ τὴν περίοδον †καὶ τῇ διανοία† τετελειῶσθαι, καὶ μὴ διακόπτεσθαι ὥσπερ τὰ Σοφοκλέους ἰαμβεῖα, 10

Καλυδὼνμὲν ἥδε γαῖα· Πελοπίας χθονός·

Eur. fr. 515 τοὐναντίον γὰρ ἔστιν ὑπολαβεῖν τῷ διαιρεῖσθαι, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ εἰρημένου τὴν Καλυδῶνα εἶναι τῆς Πελοποννήσου.

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1. Really from the Meleager of Euripides, Frag. 515 ( T.G.F.). The break in the sense comes after γαῖα, Πελοπίας χθονός really belonging to the next line: ἐν ἀντιπόρθμοις πέδι’ ἔχουσ’ εὐδαίμονα. As it stands in the text, the line implies that Calydon was in Peloponnesus , which of course it was not. The meaning then is: This is the land of Calydon, with its fertile plains in the country over against Peloponnesus (on the opposite side of the strait, near the mouth of the Corinthian gulf).

Aristotle Rhetoric 3.9.4

John Henry Freese (Translator)

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