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The epilogue
is composed of four parts: to dispose the hearer favorably towards oneself and
unfavorably towards the adversary; to amplify and depreciate; to excite the
emotions of the hearer; to recapitulate. For after you have proved that you are
truthful and that the adversary is false, the natural order of things is to
praise ourselves, blame him, and put the finishing touches.1 One of two things should be aimed at,
to show that you are either relatively or absolutely good and the adversary
either relatively or absolutely bad. The topics which serve to represent men as
good or bad have already been stated.2
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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