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opus illius* Sciendum est multosex rhetoribus & philosophis, multasrhetoricae definitiones dediile, Ari-stoteles philosophus sic eam defini-vit : Rhetorica est facultas artificiali*sermonis per sua sibilis,circa unamqvamqverem versantis. In hoc autem peccathaec definitio, qvod deficiat. Duonamqve sunt vitia definitionum;nempe redundantia, & ellipsis fivedefectus : nam si definitio praedictione redundet, rebus deficit;contra si verbis deficiat, redundatrebus, Qvia igitur definitio Ari-stotelis dictione deficit cum noaaddiderit, politici (fi copiosi , (sermo-nis) redundat rebus. Non solumenim hic rhetoricam , sed totamdialecticam complectitur. In hocautem differt rhetorica a dialectica,qvod dialectica non solum de poli-tica, sed etiam de qvalibet alia pro-posita qvadlione,persuasibili mododifferat per interrogationem &responsionem , sed non copiose;rhetorica vero de politicis tantum,non dialectice sed copiose. Elimi-nanda itaqve est Aristotelis defini-tio, utpote qvar dictione deficiasSub Caesare tantum Augusto Diony-sius genere Halicarnaseus, rhetori-cam accurate & convenienter defi-nivit, cum dixit : Rhetorica est facul“tas artificialis perfuasilibus sermonis in repolitica, finem habens bene dicere . Haecergo definitio bene habere existi-matur, utpote qvae nec deficiat, nec

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