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The Nature of Authoritative Evidence in Polybius and Agelaus' Speech at Naupactus

Craighe Champion

Transactions of the American Philological Association. (1997) pp. 111-128

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[890 words] polybius, livy, romans, hannibal, philip, polyb, treaty, carthage, walbank, flamininus, aetolians, senate, scipio, pyrrhus, embassy, greece, carthaginian, carthaginians, antiochus, rhodes, perseus, macedon, punic, macedonian, holleaux, aetolian, peace, appian, achaean, aratus

[329 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[246 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[190 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[141 words] demosthenes, speech, speeches, isocrates, rhetoric, lysias, aeschines, rhetorical, gorgias, speaker, oration, orator, oratory, orators, antiphon, delivered, athens, aristotle, forensic, audience, written, palamedes, sophists, political, isokrates, helen, athenian, orations, blass, assembly

[120 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[117 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[108 words] berkeley, trans, essays, leiden, commentary, los_angeles, ithaca, mass, baltimore, early, politics, ancient_greece, myth, tapa, tradition, clarendon_press, amsterdam, introduction, vols, phoenix, greece, diss, ann_arbor, stuttgart, origins, reading, arethusa, review, routledge, rhetoric

[83 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[83 words] livy, sallust, polybius, appian, books, jugurtha, historian, florus, historians, livius, tacitus, trogus, antias, justin, orosius, epitome, periochae, anacyclosis, virtus, narrative, decade, histories, fortuna, bellum, catiline, justinus, syme, velleius, historiography, pompeius_trogus

[71 words] speech, words, himself, speaker, audience, lines, situation, scene, action, address, makes, line, speak, asks, addressed, response, begins, take, effect, immediately, reply, comes, your, speaking, speaks, moment, advice, beginning, passage, questions

[70 words] macedonia, macedonian, thracian, thrace, illyrian, epirus, olynthos, olynthus, apollonia, thessaly, beroea, hammond, pella, chalcidic, illyrians, thessalonica, towns, amphipolis, illyria, stobi, torone, chalcidians, archelaus, city, pydna, aegae, thracians, egnatia, perdiccas, town

[60 words] political, power, democracy, city, politics, citizens, rule, government, democratic, polis, laws, constitution, community, republic, aristocratic, empire, individual, freedom, ideal, aristocracy, citizen, economic, wealth, control, monarchy, tyranny, oligarchy, states, athens, institutions

[59 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[35 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[26 words] aristotle, pleasure, virtue, action, justice, desire, pleasures, moral, things, happiness, ethics, pain, soul, virtues, goods, actions, desires, person, agent, eudaimonia, activity, rational, sake, sense, natural, plato, something, claim, ethical, pleasant

[25 words] passage, sense, text, meaning, sentence, words, word, reading, phrase, line, mean, translation, clause, context, lines, follows, editors, refer, difficulty, verb, makes, emendation, take, refers, preceding, expression, passages, correct, understood, translates

[20 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[18 words] kcai, tcov, icai, passage, kata, kati, kaci, icat, kcti, kait, nepi, kcat, oiov, tflv, epyov, pipilo, ckai, touto, xprjv, xpctv, xprv, otov, tiva, touq, xpcv, kcli, eoti, votto, iepov, tilv

[18 words] aristotle, true, proposition, definition, propositions, universal, false, syllogism, something, logical, logic, hypothesis, thing, truth, syllogisms, things, premiss, premisses, sense, definitions, term, principle, genus, hypothetical, every, demonstration, knowledge, species, passage, sentence

[18 words] narrative, events, chapter, section, books, beginning, story, sections, sequence, chapters, begins, follows, passage, composition, theme, structure, digression, followed, lines, opening, introduction, chronological, immediately, treatment, event, division, preceding, arrangement, passages, action

[16 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[16 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[16 words] thucydides, athens, pericles, athenian, athenians, alcibiades, thuc, cleon, nicias, gomme, speech, sparta, speeches, political, historian, spartan, peloponnesian_war, spartans, brasidas, demos, perikles, democracy, themistocles, melos, sicily, funeral, alkibiades, debate, thucydidean, events

[12 words] language, words, effect, literary, poet, expression, tone, contrast, speech, passages, reader, manner, poetry, himself, rhetorical, passage, dramatic, prose, poetic, uses, technique, lines, characteristic, theme, writing, treatment, makes, serious, kind, familiar

[12 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[11 words] passage, kata, tovs, rpos, kara, trov, rovs, kalt, avrov, rapa, katl, tovto, repl, tols, words, aaaa, evov, passages, kacl, follows, evos, otov, rots, avtov, kcal, rept, elval, tovtov, rtov, a7ro

[10 words] alexander, arrian, macedonian, philip, king, curtius, diodorus, diod, tarn, ptolemy, macedonians, antigonus, plutarch, macedonia, alexander_the_great, demetrius, curt, royal, plut, olympias, antipater, alex, persian, eumenes, justin, sources, darius, perdiccas, bosworth, hammond

[9 words] aristotle, things, forms, plato, thing, sense, knowledge, objects, perception, something, object, matter, substance, sensible, distinction, true, senses, kind, mind, passage, equal, particulars, socrates, individual, definition, exist, unity, parmenides, species, thinking

[8 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[7 words] king, ptolemy, kings, antiochos, royal, antiochus, egypt, ptolemaic, parthian, armenia, mithridates, arsinoe, ptolemies, alexandria, seleucid, kingdom, reign, hellenistic, antioch, throne, cleopatra, ptolemaios, parthians, philadelphus, euergetes, parthia, queen, polemo, title, tigranes

[6 words] mommsen, romischen, romische, dazu, untersuchungen, klio, gesch, zeit, meyer, gelzer, stuttgart, beloch, diss, munchen, hermes, studien, ders, siehe, republik, cass, wiesbaden, welt, hrsg, darmstadt, bengtson, augustus, rostovtzeff, roms, kaiserzeit, r6mischen

[6 words] average, size, numbers, population, high, proportion, data, length, ratio, higher, units, frequency, rate, range, increase, groups, percentage, relative, estimate, amount, lower, statistics, value, significant, approximately, sample, distribution, mean, greater, unit

[6 words] pour, mais, nous, comme, cette, avec, sont, meme, deux, fait, bien, etre, aussi, elle, entre, tout, dont, leur, sans, autre, peut, etait, donc, avait, voir, autres, apres, ainsi, encore, chez

[6 words] sicily, syracuse, sicilian, dion, diodorus, morgantina, dionysius, timaeus, gela, diod, sybaris, timoleon, dionysios, syracusan, gelon, tyrant, herakleides, foundation, thurii, locri, leontinoi, syracusans, orsi, laqueur, hieron, island, dions, hiero, thourioi, himera

[6 words] nach, durch, aber, einer, hatte, diese, wurde, noch, sein, dieser, werden, haben, gegen, wird, einen, oder, unter, jahre, zeit, uber, waren, seiner, seine, schon, wenn, sind, einem, hier, worden, zwischen

[5 words] latin, english, language, teacher, student, reading, teachers, teaching, pupils, words, vocabulary, knowledge, pupil, translation, method, classics, grammar, schools, training, learning, taught, education, teach, learn, value, instruction, every, high_school, languages, ability

[5 words] himself, friends, political, personal, public, friend, whom, friendship, attitude, position, reputation, conduct, having, towards, toward, enemies, praise, private, cause, return, influence, claim, speech, charges, power, true, actions, themselves, felt, career

[5 words] cicero, quintilian, orator, rhetorical, rhetoric, oratory, speech, brutus, de_oratore, cato, orat, speeches, quint, latin, ciceronian, eloquence, gellius, dialogue, orators, seneca, crassus, declamation, antonius, rhet, brut, calvus, oratorical, herennium, auctor, laelius