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There are countless other definitions,
either identical with this or composed of the same
elements, which I shall deal with when I come to
the questions concerned with the subject matter of
rhetoric. Some regard it as neither a power, a
science or an art; Critolaus calls it the practice of
speaking (for this is the meaning of τριβή),
Athenaeus styles it the art of deceiving,
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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