Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated with Hobbes' Analysis, Examination Questions, and an Appendix Containing the Greek DefinitionsG. Bell, 1890 - 500 pages |
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Page 55
... Sophocles from which the same inference may be drawn ; Edipus , asking Creon why the murder of Laius had not been more fully investigated , thus expresses himself : Κακὸν δὲ ποῖον ἐμποδὼν , ΤΥΡΑΝΝΙΔΟΣ “ Ουτω πεσούσης , εἶργε τοῦτ ̓ ...
... Sophocles from which the same inference may be drawn ; Edipus , asking Creon why the murder of Laius had not been more fully investigated , thus expresses himself : Κακὸν δὲ ποῖον ἐμποδὼν , ΤΥΡΑΝΝΙΔΟΣ “ Ουτω πεσούσης , εἶργε τοῦτ ̓ ...
Page 87
... Sophocles enters uttering , that it was just , namely to bury Polynices , though de- nounced , since this by nature was a deed of justice : " For by no means is it for this or the next day mere- ly that this maxim is in force , but for ...
... Sophocles enters uttering , that it was just , namely to bury Polynices , though de- nounced , since this by nature was a deed of justice : " For by no means is it for this or the next day mere- ly that this maxim is in force , but for ...
Page 92
... Sophocles said when pleading in be- 2. Where the penal- ty is not equiva- lent . the in- conse- quence . If half of Euctemon , who , on being insolently assaulted , slew himself ; " that he would price the deed at no See Gibbon's ...
... Sophocles said when pleading in be- 2. Where the penal- ty is not equiva- lent . the in- conse- quence . If half of Euctemon , who , on being insolently assaulted , slew himself ; " that he would price the deed at no See Gibbon's ...
Page 94
... by law , to exercise their best judgment , ( yváμr , ǹ åρíσTn :) this , as Aristotle here ob serves , left grounds for the appeal of an orator . 99 of Sophocles ; for she is defending herself because 94 BOOK L. ARISTOTLE'S CHAP. XV. ...
... by law , to exercise their best judgment , ( yváμr , ǹ åρíσTn :) this , as Aristotle here ob serves , left grounds for the appeal of an orator . 99 of Sophocles ; for she is defending herself because 94 BOOK L. ARISTOTLE'S CHAP. XV. ...
Page 95
... Sophocles ; for she is defending herself because she acted in opposition to the law of Creon , but not in opposition to the universal law 3 , " for these are not of this or of the next day merely , but ever exist ; their prescript would ...
... Sophocles ; for she is defending herself because she acted in opposition to the law of Creon , but not in opposition to the universal law 3 , " for these are not of this or of the next day merely , but ever exist ; their prescript would ...
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