[56] Arist., Rhet., iii. 9. 3.
[57] Dion., de Lysia, 6; ἡ συστρέφουσα τὰ νοήματα καὶ στρογγύλως ἐκφέρουσα λέξις.
[58] See Verrall, Rhyme and Reason, in The Bacchants of Euripides.
[60] Arist., Rhet., i.
[61] E.g., on the laws, Herodes, § 14, and Choreutes, § 2, where the same passage of about eight lines occurs with only the alteration of two or three unimportant words.
[62] Jebb (Attic Orators, vol. i. pp. 40-41) insists that the prominence given to this kind of argument points to a deep religious feeling in the orator’s heart. However, we meet with the same type of argument in Aeschines, to whom no such depth of feeling is usually imputed.
[63] Cf. the Demosthenic collection of προοίμια.
[64] προκατασκευή.
[65] διήγησις.