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Again, they may be derived from forensic exordia, that
is to say, from appeals to the hearer, if the subject treated is paradoxical,
difficult, or commonly known, in order to obtain indulgence, like Choerilus1: “
But now when all has been allotted.
” These then are the sources of epideictic exordia—praise,
blame, exhortation, dissuasion, appeals to the hearer. And these exordia2 may be either foreign
or intimately connected with the speech.
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1 Of Samos, epic poet, author of a poem on the Persian war, from which this half-line and the context preserved in the Scholiast are taken. He complains that whereas the poets of olden times had plenty to write about, the field of poetry being as yet untilled, it was now all apportioned, and he, the last of the poets, was left behind, unable to find “a new chariot for the race-course of his song. ”
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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