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But whenever one has gone too far, the remedy
may be found in the common piece of advice—that he should rebuke
himself in advance;1 then the excess seems true, since the
orator is obviously aware of what he is doing.
1 The exaggeration should be brought forward first, by way of forestalling the objection, and accompanied by some limiting phrase. Quintilian （Quint. Inst. Orat. 8.3.37） gives as examples: “so to say,” “if I may be allowed to say so.”
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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