Περίλεξις
circumlocution
Translated by Ioannis Doukas11 Sep 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] periphrasis. It shows imperceptibly the number of parts rhetoric consists of; for first one must conceive, then explain that which was conceived; this is the remaining task of the discourse of explanation. And comprehension,1 namely the perception and the art. For thus we define [it]; and with the art; as the rhetoric is the art of discoursing well upon problems.2 And what [is] art? A system of trained comprehensions.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περίλεξις· περίφρασις. λεληθότως δὲ δείκνυσιν ἐκ πόσων συνέστηκε ῥητορεία· δεῖ γὰρ πρῶτον νοῆσαι, εἶτα ἑρμηνεῦσαι τὸ νοηθέν· ὅπερ ἐστὶ λοιπὸν ἔργον τοῦ τῆς ἐξηγήσεως λόγου. καὶ κατάληψιν, ἤγουν τὴν αἴσθησιν καὶ τὴν τέχνην. οὕτω γὰρ ὁριζόμεθα· κἀν τῇ τέχνῃ· οἷον ῥητορικὴ ἐστὶ τέχνη τοῦ εὖ λέγειν τὰ προβλήματα. διὰ τί τέχνη; σύστημα ἐγκαταλήψεων ἐγγεγυμνασμένων.
Betacode
*peri/lecis: peri/frasis. lelhqo/tws de\ dei/knusin e)k po/swn sune/sthke r(htorei/a: dei= ga\r prw=ton noh=sai, ei)=ta e(rmhneu=sai to\ nohqe/n: o(/per e)sti\ loipo\n e)/rgon tou= th=s e)chgh/sews lo/gou. kai\ kata/lhyin, h)/goun th\n ai)/sqhsin kai\ th\n te/xnhn. ou(/tw ga\r o(rizo/meqa: ka)n th=| te/xnh|: oi(=on r(htorikh\ e)sti\ te/xnh tou= eu)= le/gein ta\ problh/mata. dia\ ti/ te/xnh; su/sthma e)gkatalh/yewn e)ggegumnasme/nwn.
Notes (3)
- This entry draws on the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 318 (where the headword occurs in the accusative case: web address 1).
- 1kappa 622 and kappa 623 (q.v.). ↩
- 2LSJ s.v.
pro/blhma A IV 4 (web address 2); also Aelius Theon, Progymnasmata 72.21-24; cf. pi 2340, pi 2342. ↩ - 3This is a Stoic definition; read however
e)k katalh/yewn instead ofe)gkatalh/yewn ; see Zeno fr.73 and Chrysippus frr.93-97; also in ps.-Zonaras s.v.te/xnh . ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 3 Aug 2021
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- typo — Catharine Roth
- another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added cross-references — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas