a r i s t i d e s . id non audcrcmus , quan non diet amplius
PJatoni rdpon elend uni,quæ ip(c fibi yoljucrir.
Abfurdum deinde mifii videbitur , fi Plato
Rhetoricatri,cuius & ipfepartemfbrtâlfe con-
iecutus aliquam eras, vituperare non eft veri-
tus. nos pro Rlietorica, ne quis iJIiu$.caula in-
dignetur, diccre pudeb.it. prseterea, liquidem
nihil bporreret côritradicere, fed eamdeferti
vadimonij velut in curia damnari idque di7
cendi magi ftram,alia qtiædam haec eilet ratio*
Sin quemquam oportear,nobis hoc propemofxti
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<juum eft, yt a qua id accepifuus > qito cseteris, $ $ * & & & & & S - f M A
patrocinari pollcmus, ea (ms deltituatur bo- v v 1 ** ~ * *
nis, nec potius velcalls, quakm Plato voluit, a^ ‘( WR» T m P
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minajid vnum ac limplex nqn efi.verum firrntf ^ o , ^ . J ytp lfov tv tS tc c nteymyS.
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tio,nec argumentum neceflkrium, fed pro con K&W 8 J ƒ os£>7»c cl^AijAix/«/,
ceffis fumuntur, dequibusqratpriusdilputan- jbou^O/tfT'g«^) ozo^-c-tv to. Jlif&jcti
dum,quafi ab audnoribus ea fibi dari petiiller, io 3a v JCwsoujj pcs? fcsVl'gAgJ^<i^ 1
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prb concerns poncre, quomodo vel sequura '■ . . r
lit ea,quae ridiculum lit qu^rece,initio ponere,
vel non ridiculu,vtrum arsdicendi & coquen-
di eiufde lint naturse,quaerefe i At iple hoc tan-
tum conceilum fumlit. Licebit aute id c.ogno-
fcere,fi quis fublato Rhetorics nomine,Phiio-
fophiam in eius locum fubfticuat, atque iraii£
dem vtatur omnibus. Nee verb vel rufticuiji
quifquani, vel frigidunj nunc fore fermpnem
exiftimer. Primum enim cum duarum artium
vel facultatum, eos qui alteram fc<ftantur,fi de
alteris quippiam fecus dixerint, nihil ineler
ganter agere diifturi fumus , alteris merirb
eandem epneedemus defendendi ratjpnem.
Deinde npn pffenfs gratia * fed demon-
ftrationis, qua: in his nufquatti apparet, pro-
feretur,
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relinquamus. Quo fit,vt omnes propemodum
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orationem earn qu«e vel arteni quxric > vel id
quod cum ea nqnfit cohiupAum, vituperar.
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