# Ῥητορική 1.9.20

Aristotle, Ῥητορική, Book 1, Chapter 9. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aristotle/text-18/1.9.20

καὶ τὰ ἐναντία ἢ ἐφʼ οἷς αἰσχύνονται· τὰ γὰρ αἰσχρὰ αἰσχύνονται καὶ λέγοντες καὶ ποιοῦντες καὶ μέλλοντες, ὥσπερ καὶ Σαπφὼ πεποίηκεν, εἰπόντος τοῦ Ἀλκαίου θέλω τι εἰπῆν, ἀλλά με κωλύει αἰδώς, Alcaeus fr. 55 αἱ δʼ ἦχες ἐσθλῶν ἵμερον ἢ καλῶν καὶ μή τι εἰπῆν γλῶσσʼ ἐκύκα κακόν αἰδώς κέν σε οὐκ εἶχεν ὄμματʼ, ἀλλʼ ἔλεγες περὶ τῶ δικαίω. Sappho fr. 28

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Aristotle, Ῥητορική, ed. William David Ross. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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