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and next to it comes the forensic style. It is
superfluous to make the further distinction
that style
should be pleasant or magnificent. Why so, any more than temperate, liberal, or
anything else that indicates moral virtue? For it is evident that, if virtue of
style has been correctly defined, what we have said will suffice to make it
pleasant. For why, if not to please, need it be clear, not mean, but
appropriate? If it be too diffuse, or too concise, it will not be clear; but it
is plain that the mean is most suitable. What we have said will make the style
pleasant, if it contains a happy mixture of proper and
“foreign” words, of rhythm, and of persuasiveness resulting
from propriety. This finishes what we had to say about style; of all the three
kinds of Rhetoric in general, and of each of them in particular. It only remains
to speak of arrangement.
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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