Kitap 3
12.3
(But one must vary the expression when one repeats the same thing, for this as it were paves the way for declamation:The variation in the form of the expression suggests a similar variation in the form of the delivery or declamation. as, This is he who robbed you, this is he who deceived you, this is he who at last attempted to betray you. This is what Philemon the actor did in The Old Man's Folly of Anaxandrides, when he says Rhadamanthus and Palamedes, and when he repeats the word I in the prologue to The Pious.The meaning of this has not been satisfactorily explained. On the face of it, it seems to mean that the excellence of Philemon's delivery consisted in his way of declaiming passages in which the same words were repeated. Philemon is not to be confused with the writer of the New Comedy, the rival and contemporary of Menander. For unless such expressions are varied by action, it is a case of the man who carries the beamUsed of a stiff, ungraceful speaker. in the proverb.)
