# Ῥητορική 3.11.10

Aristotle, Ῥητορική, Book 3, Chapter 11. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aristotle/text-18/3.11.10

δεῖ δʼ ἀεὶ προσεῖναι τὸ πρὸς ὃν λέγεται ὀρθῶς λέγεσθαι, εἰ τὸ λεγόμενον ἀληθὲς καὶ μὴ ἐπιπόλαιον ἔσται· ἔστιν γὰρ ταῦτα χωρὶς ἔχειν, οἷον ἀποθνῄσκειν δεῖ μηθὲν ἁμαρτάνοντα , τὴν ἀξίαν δεῖ γαμεῖν τὸν ἄξιον, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἀστεῖον, ἀλλʼ ἢ ἐὰν ἅμα ἄμφω ἔχῃ· ἄξιόν γʼ ἀποθανεῖν μὴ ἄξιον ὄντα τοῦ ἀποθανεῖν. ὅσῳ δʼ ἂν πλείω ἔχῃ, τοσούτῳ ἀστειότερον φαίνεται, οἷον εἰ καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα μεταφορὰ εἴη καὶ μεταφορὰ τοιαδὶ καὶ ἀντίθεσις καὶ παρίσωσις, καὶ ἔχοι ἐνέργειαν.

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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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