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 he exaggerates, he forestalls objections, he repeats, he postpones, he harks back, he asks questions, describes, divides, introduces fictitious characters, puts his own words in another's mouth: those are the meanings of.

16. Do you see that he handles almost all the weapons of the orator? Therefore if Chrysippus himself has shewn that these should be used, what more do I ask, unless it be that you should not employ the verbiage of the dialecticians but rather the eloquence of Plato? A sword must be used in fight against (opponents), but it matters much whether the blade be rusty or burnished Epictetus    if he had dared, an epitaph   carried through with the greatest credit   If anywhere  a disciple of Anaxagoras not of the sycophant Alexinus

17. The tragedian Aesopus is said never to have put on a tragic mask without setting it in front of him and studying it a long time that he might conform his gestures and adapt his voice to the face of the mask  or do you think it a greater task to write the tragedy Amphiaraus than to speak on the subject of an earthquake? you argue about a thunderbolt 69