πρόσωπον. [160] 18, [198] 23. Person, character. Lat. persona. Cp. Demetr. p. 300.
πτῶσις. [106] 20, [108] 4, [132] 7, [212] 20, [264] 4. Grammatical case. Lat. casus. ‘Verbal cases’ are mentioned in [108] 4; in Aristotle the term πτῶσις includes inflexions in general.
πυρρίχιος. [168] 17. Pyrrhic. Lat. pyrrhichius. The metrical foot ᴗ ᴗ.
ῥῆμα. [70] 13, 21, [168] 10, [218] 6, 7, [264] 5. Verb. Lat. verbum. So ῥηματικός [108] 4 (verbal), [220] 17 (verbal form).
ῥήτωρ. [74] 8, [132] 22, [166] 12, [200] 14, [206] 25, [218] 21, [236] 20, [242] 7, [248] 15. Orator, rhetorician. Lat. orator, rhetor. As in English we have no similarly two-sided word, it is often hard to decide between the renderings, ‘speaker’ and ‘teacher of speaking.’ So ῥητορικός [68] 9, [254] 25, [262] 20.
ῥοῖζος. [138] 10. A whizzing. Lat. stridor.
ῥυθμίζειν. [180] 13. To bring into rhythm, to scan. Lat. scandere. Cp. the use of βαίνειν and διαιρεῖν.
ῥυθμός. [120] 18, [122] 12, [124] 6, 9, passim. Rhythm, harmonious movement of speech. Lat. numerus. For le nombre oratoire in Cicero (whose prose, however, like Roman prose generally, must not be taken to follow exclusively Attic standards) see Laurand’s Études pp. 109-11, and cp. Cic. Orat. 20. 67 “quicquid est enim, quod sub aurium mensuram aliquam cadat, etiamsi abest a versu—nam id quidem orationis est vitium—numerus vocatur, qui Graece ῥυθμός dicitur.” Quintil. Inst. Or. ix. 4. 45 “omnis structura ac dimensio et copulatio vocum constat aut numeris (numeros ῥυθμούς accipi volo) aut μέτροις, id est dimensione quadam.” It was a suggestive saying of Scaliger’s that metre gives the exact ‘measure’ of the line, rhythm its ‘temperament.’ As Dionysius identifies ῥυθμός and πούς ([168] 11; cp. [176] 2, 3), we may translate ῥυθμός by ‘foot’ in [180] 11, [182] 19 (cp. σπονδεῖος πούς [178] 7), [200] 17, [206] 9, etc.—Cp. Aristot. Rhet. iii. 8. 2 τὸ δὲ ἄρρυθμον ἀπέραντον, δεῖ δὲ πεπεράνθαι μέν, μὴ μέτρῳ δέ· ἀηδὲς γὰρ καὶ ἄγνωστον τὸ ἄπειρον. περαίνεται δὲ ἀριθμῷ πάντα· ὁ δὲ τοῦ σχήματος τῆς λέξεως ἀριθμὸς ῥυθμός ἐστιν, οὗ καὶ τὰ μέτρα τμητά· διὸ ῥυθμὸν δεῖ ἔχειν τὸν λόγον, μέτρον δὲ μή· ποίημα γὰρ ἔσται. ῥυθμὸν δὲ μὴ ἀκριβῶς· τοῦτο δὲ ἔσται ἐὰν μέχρι του ᾖ. So ῥυθμικός [128] 18 (where the reference is to lyric metres), [168] 8, [172] 20 (cp. οἱ μετρικοί), [176] 7. Quintilian (ix. 4. 68) provides a good example of the divisions recognized by the rhythmici: “quis enim dubitet, unum sensum in hoc et unum spiritum esse: animadverti, iudices, omnem accusatoris orationem in duas divisam esse partes? tamen et duo prima verba et tria proxima et deinceps duo rursus ac tria suos quasi numeros habent spiritum sustinentes, sicut apud rhythmicos aestimantur.”
ῥυπαρός. [134] 24. Filthy, sordid. Lat. sordidus.