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Therefore,
if we adopt all such divisions we shall be following Theodorus1 and his school, who distinguished narrative,
additional narrative, and preliminary narrative, refutation and additional
refutation. But one must only adopt a name to express a distinct species or a
real difference; otherwise, it becomes empty and silly, like the terms
introduced by Licymnius in his “Art,” where he speaks of
“being wafted along,” “wandering from the
subject,”2 and
“ramifications.”
1 Plat. Phaedrus 266d, where the additional kinds of narrative are omitted, and their place taken by πίστωσις and ἐπιπίστωσις （confirmation of the proof）.
2 Or, “diverting the judge's attention.”
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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