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concentration, which the Greek calls
διαλλαγή1 a term employed when a number of
different arguments are used to establish one point:
consequence, which Gorgias calls ἐπακολούθησις and
which I have already discussed under the head
of argument2: inference, which Gorgias terms
συλλογισμός threats, that is, κατάπληξις exhortation,
or παραινετικόν But all of these are perfectly
straightforward methods of speaking, unless combined with some one of the figures which I have
discussed above.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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