Ars Rhetorica

POSS HS SESSESSSESSCSSESEST SET SSSESCE SCOSSSSOES €8ZSA* HF ry Mh _E- HARRIS oS A -e Maes LOEEE’S TREATISE ON RHETORIC LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH HOBBES’ ANALYSIS, EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE GREEK DEFINITIONS. ALSO, THE POETIC OF ARISTOTLE, UITARALLY TRANSLATED, WITH A SELECTION OF NOTES, AN ANALYSIP AND QUESTIONS. BY THEODORE BUCKLEY, B.A. OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS ΝᾺ ae WARS ms ς om, % X AT La ἃ em +) [Reprinted from Sterectype plates.} BR AR ty 9 ERs iry of TOROS TO THE READER. In this third edition, the translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric has bee=. again carefully compared with the Greek, and revised and corrected throughout. Numerous ex~ planatory and illustrative notes have also been added; as well as a marginal analysis, which it is presumed will be found of much service to the reader. The famous Thomas Hobbes’ Brief of the Art of Rhetoric’, “containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books on that subject,” and forming the best summary of this noble science, has been again reprinted from the scarce edition published at London in 1681. A body of Analytical Questions, for self-examination, has also been appended. | With these improvements, the Editor confidently opes that the present volume will be found to contain, not only the most faithful version of the Rhetoric of Aristotle, but the best helps for the d: e understanding and retaining the sense thereof. Ozford. November, 1846. In the present new edition of the Oxford version of the Rhetoric, it has been thought advisable not to interfere either with the text, notes, or Questions, all being of acknowledged excellence. But, as Hobbes, by the IV TO THE READER.…