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ἄλλα δ᾽ ἠθικὰ τὰ ἑπόμενα ἑκάστῳ ἤθει, οἷον ὅτι ἅμα λέγων ἐβάδιζεν: δηλοῖ γὰρ θρασύτητα καὶ ἀγροικίαν ἤθους. καὶ μὴ ὡς ἀπὸ διανοίας λέγειν, ὥσπερ οἱ νῦν,
ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἀπὸ προαιρέσεως: “ἐγὼ δὲ ἐβουλόμην: καὶ προειλόμην γὰρ τοῦτο: ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μὴ ὠνήμην, βέλτιον”: τὸ μὲν γὰρ φρονίμου τὸ δὲ ἀγαθοῦ: φρονίμου μὲν γὰρ ἐν τῷ τὸ ὠφέλιμον διώκειν, ἀγαθοῦ δ᾽ ἐν τῷ τὸ καλόν. ἂν δ᾽ ἄπιστον ᾖ, τότε τὴν αἰτίαν ἐπιλέγειν, ὥσπερ Σοφοκλῆς ποιεῖ: παράδειγμα
τὸ ἐκ τῆς Ἀντιγόνης, ὅτι μᾶλλον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἐκήδετο ἢ ἀνδρὸς ἢ τέκνων: τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἂν γενέσθαι ἀπολομένων, “μητρὸς δ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου καὶ πατρὸς βεβηκότων
οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἀδελφὸς ὅς τις ἂν βλάστοι ποτέ.
” Soph. Ant. 911-912 ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἔχῃς αἰτίαν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι οὐκ ἀγνοεῖς ἄπιστα λέγων,
ἀλλὰ φύσει τοιοῦτος εἶ: ἀπιστοῦσι γὰρ ἄλλο τι πράττειν ἑκόντα πλὴν τὸ συμφέρον.
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Ars Rhetorica. Aristotle. W. D. Ross. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1959.
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