# Ars Rhetorica 3-3

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica, Μέθοδος γενεθλιακῶν. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/dionysius-of-halicarnassus/ars-rhetorica/3-3

Ἀπὸ δὲ τούτου ἰτέον καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς τόπους, ἐν οἷς τις γέγονεν· πρῶτον μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ περιέχον τὸ ἔθνος, Ἀσίαν, ὐρώπην· καὶ τοῦτο οὐ πάλιν Ἑλληνικὸν ἢ βάρβαρον, ἢ σοφίαν ἢ ἀνδρείαν τοῦ ἔθνους ἢ τι τοιοῦτον ἐπισημαινόμενον. εἶτα ἐπὶ τὸ περιεχόμενον· τίς ἡ πό|λις καὶ ἡ μητρόπολις αὐτῷ· ἐχομένη ἡ πόλις μητροπόλεως τῇ τιμῇ, μεγάλη, πολυάνθρωπος, εὔφορος πρὸς ἀνδρῶν ἀρετήν, ἢ ἄν τι ἕτερον ἀνδραγάθημα τῆς πόλεως. ἔπειτα τὰ μὲν περιεχόμενα ἐν τῇ πόλει· ποίας τινὸς οἰκίας, ὅτι οὐ φαύλης, ὅτι οὐκ ἀδόξου, γένους 〈ὅτι〉 ἐνδόξου, ποίων τινῶν προγόνων καὶ πατέρων, καὶ ἔπαινον ἐν βραχεῖ τούτων ἀπὸ τῶν προσόντων.

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Dionysius of Halicarnasus, Ars Rhetorica, ed. Hermann Usener, Ludwig Radermacher. 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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