ΑΡΙΣΤΟΕΛΟΥΣ

Bekker P. 1354 quarto edition 1831. p. 1 octavo edition 1873

ΤΕΧΝΗΣ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗΣ Α.

'H ρητоρικη ἐστιν αντιστρоφоς τη διαλ∈ϰτιϰη αν

§ I. 'H ρητоρικη ἐστιν αντιστρоφоς τη διαλ∈ϰτιϰη is translated by cicero, ex altera parte respondere dialecticae, Orat. XXXII 114. ‘Vox a scena ducta videtur. Chori antistrophe strophae ad assem respondet, eiusque motus ita fit, ut posterior in prioris locum succedat … Significat ex altera parte respondere et quasi ex adverso oppositum esse; id quod etiam in antistrophen cadit.’ Trendel. El Log. Arist. § 14 p. 74: and to the same effect, Comment, ad Arist. de Anima, II 11 J p. 408. ‘αντíστρоφоν dicitur quod alius rei quasi partes agit eamque repraesentat;’ Waitz, Comm. ad Anal. Pr. I 2, 25 a 6.

The term is borrowed from the manoeuvres of the chorus in the recitation of the choral odes. Στρоφ;η denotes its movement in one direction, to which the αντισρоφη, the counter-movement, the wheeling in the opposite direction, exactly corresponds, the same movements being repeated. Müller, Diss. Eumen. p. 41. Hist. Gr. Lit. c. xiv § 4. Mure, Hist. Gk. Lit. Bk. in. c. 1 § 15. Hence it is extended to the words sung by the chorus during the latter of these volutions, and signifies a set of verses precisely parallel or answering in all their details to the verses of the στρоφη. And thus, when applied in its strict and proper sense, denotes an exact correspondence in detail, as a fac-simile or counterpart.