[215] A division applying only to the genus deliberativum.
[216] Six are usually given. Cassiodorus has exordium, narratio, partitio, confirmatio, reprehensio, conclusio. Halm, Rhetores Latini Minores, p. 497.
[217] An analysis of cases according to the emotional effect they are likely to have on the audience.
[218] “Ut admirentur (judices) quenquam ad defensionem eius accedere.” Halm, 316, 34, from Sulpitius Victor.
[219] The irregular syllogism. Each sub-head is exhaustively analyzed.
[220] Giving the lie as conclusion of an irregular syllogism.
[221] A short account of the nature of law. This sub-head is not found in the text-books on rhetoric before Isidore’s time.
[222] In the use of letters, words, and sentences.
[223] Figurae verborum et sententiarum. Samples of the former are anadiplosis, paradiastole, antimetabole, exoche; of the latter (forty-seven in all), coenonesis, parrhesia, aposiopesis, aetiologia, epitrochasmus. Cf. p. 107, note.
[224] H. W. Blunt, Art. “Logic,” in Encycl. Brit., 11th ed. See also Rashdall, Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1895), vol. i, p. 36.