Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire: Introduction, Text, and Translation of the Arts of Rhetoric Attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara 9004107282, 9789004107281

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TWO GREEK RHETORICAL TREATISES FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE

MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA COLLEGERUNT J.M. BREMER • L.F. JANSSEN • H. PINKSTER H.W. PLEKET • C.J. RUIJGH • P.H. SCHR^JVERS BIBUOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT C.J RUIJGH, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFMARKT 129, AMSTERDAM

SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM SEXAGESIMUM OCTAVUM MERVIN R. DIETS

and

GEORGE A. KENNEDY

(eds.)

TWO GREEK RHETORICAL TREATISES FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE

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TWO GREEK RHETORICAL TREATISES FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE INTRODUCTION, TEXT, AND TRANSLATION OF THE ARTS OF RHETORIC ATTRIBUTED TO ANONYMOUS SEGUERIANUS AND TO APSINES OF GADARA

EDITED BY

MERVIN R. DIETS AND GEORGE A. KENNEDY

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BRILL LEIDEN • NEW YORK • KOLN

1997

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Two Greek rhetorical treatises from the Roman Empire : introduction, text, and translation of the Arts of rhetoric, attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara / edited by Mervin R. DUts and George A. Kennedy. p. cm. — (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, ISSN 0169-8958 ; 168) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9004107282 (cloth ; alk. paper) 1. Rhetoric, Ancient—Early works to 1800. 2. Political oratory—Elarly works to 1800. 3. Oratory, Ancient—Early works to 1800. l. Dilts, Mervin R. 11. Kennedy, George Alexander, 1928m. Anonymous Seguerianus, 3rd cent. Techne tou poUtikou logon. rV. Apsines, of Gadara, 3rd cent. Techne. V. Series. PN173.T96 1997 808’.009’015—dc21 96-50247 CIP Die Deutsche Bibliothek — CIP-Einheitsaufnabme [Mnemosyne / Supplementum]

Mnemosyne ; bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. — Leiden ; New York ; Koln ; Brill. Friiher Schriftenreihe Reihe Supplementum zu: Mnemosyne 168. Two Greek rhetorical treatises from the Roman Empire. 1997 Two Greek rhetorical treatises for the Roman Empire :

introduction, text, and translation of the arts of rhetoric attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara / ed. by Mervin R. Dilts and George A. Kennedy. — Leiden ; New York ; Koln : Brill, 1997 (Mnemosyne : Supplementum ; 168) ISBN 90-04-10728-2 NE; Dilts, Mervin R. [Hrsg.]

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CONTENTS

Abbreviations and Bibliography .

vii

Introduction .

ix

The Textual History of the Treatises .

xxi

Sigla . xxvi Text and Translation of the Art of Political Speech attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus, with Explanatory Notes .

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Text and Translation of the Art of Rhetoric attributed to Apsines, with Explanatory Notes .

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Indices . Index of Authors and Texts Cited in the Treatises . Index of Other Proper Names . Glossary of Rhetorical Terms .

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ON PROOEMIA

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from the opponent, from the judges, from the subjects.® From the speaker, as does Demosthenes in Against Canon, “Having been insulted. . .

But if

you are speaking on behalf of another, you should also mark this out,'* as Lysias has done by saying, “Archippus here is my friend, judges.”'® From the opponent, as in Against Meidias: “The wantonness.. . .”'® From those speak¬ ing in agreement with the opponent, as Demosthenes does: “If, Members of the Council, (the decree ordered you to give the crown) to whomever many have suggested. . .

From the subject, as Lycurgus does in Against Autocles:

“Although many great cases have come before you, you have never been assembled to judge so important a one as this.”'® From the hearers or the judges as Isocrates does: “Knowing you, Men of Athens. . . .”'®

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Harpocration'® says that the topics of prooemia are those of the cir¬

cumstances.

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The skopos'^ of the prooemion is to prepare the hearer to be

of a certain sort, and its telos'^ is to create attention and receptivity and good win.®"

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If the hearers know what the speeches are about they will become

more receptive. Proekthesis, ananeosis, and merismos create receptivity.®' 11. It is proekthesis whenever someone sets out, as in a heading {kephalaia), what he is going to say; for example, “I shall show both that the man is unwor¬ thy and that the decree is illegal.”®®

12.

It is ananeosis whenever, in taking

up ideas previously mentioned, we define what we are going to say (next), as does Aeschines in Against Timarchus: “Now what manner of man he has become in dealings with citizens and his family, and how he has shamefully squandered his patrimony, and his wantonness against his own body, (these things) you know and my speech has sufficiently reminded you; two points of my accusation remain,” and so on.®®

13.

And merismos is an outline of

Ethics 2.5 and Rhetoric 2.11; cf. Quintilian 6.2.8. It recurs in Byzantine writings on rheto¬ ric; cf. John Doxapatres in Walz II pp. 171 and 495 and Maximus Planudes in Walz V p. 561. ® Cf. Aristode, Rhetoric 3.14.7; Cicero, On Invention 1.22. Cf Demosthenes 54.1. " Cf Quintihan 4.1.7. Lysias, frag. 231 ed. Thalheim. Demosthenes 21.11, of Meidias. Demosthenes 51.1. Lycurgus, frag. 15, ed. Cononis; cf Burtt, Minor Attic Orators pp. 146-47. Isocrates, Plataeacus 1. Rhetorician of the late second century; see Introduction. I.e., its goal or function. I.e., its end or purpose. ^ This is the teaching of most rhetoricians; cf, e.g., Cicero, On Invention 1.20; Rhetoric for Herennius 1.7; Quintilian 4.1.5. Aristode, Rhetoric 3.14.7 remarks that it is not always desirable for the audience to be attentive. ®' The terms might be translated as “preliminary statement, reminder, and partition.” §§10-13 are probably derived from Alexander; cf “we” in §12, ” The manuscript here attributes the quotation to Aeschines but in §167 below to Lycurgus, probably correcdy. Cf Burtt, Minor Attic Orators II pp. 150-51. Aeschines 1.116, apparendy quoted from memory and with minor differences.

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