Book 1
2.10
It is evident that Rhetoric enjoys both these advantagesThe employment of syllogism and induction, τὸ εἶδος τῆς ῥητορικῆς being taken as simply = ἡ ῥητορική. Another rendering is: that each kind of Rhetoric (that which depends upon example or upon enthymeme) enjoys some special advantage.— for what has been said in the MethodicaA lost treatise, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius in his Life of Aristotle, 24, and by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the first letter to Ammaeus, 6. It is supposed to have dealt with some branch of Logic. holds good also in this case—for rhetorical speeches are sometimes characterized by examples and sometimes by enthymemes, and orators themselves may be similarly distinguished by their fondness for one or the other. Now arguments that depend on examples are not less calculated to persuade, but those which depend upon enthymemes meet with greater approval.
2.11
Their origin and the way in which each should be used will be discussed later2.20-24.; for the moment let us define more clearly these proofs themselves.
