"The Enthymeme is a (rhetorical) syllogism". Aristotle, Reth. II, 22
"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion." Aristotle, Reth. I.2.1
Thomas Farnaby (1575-1647), a schoolmaster and Ciceronian, composed this little book which presents an organization of the tropes in a neat Ramistic system of keys.
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