to both of us together, e.g. 'He has never even lent any one a
penny, but I have ransomed quite a number of you.'
23. black girls in geans another line that is useful for men and causes that have black girls in geans been
really or black girls in geans seemingly slandered, is to show why the facts are not as
supposed; pointing out that there is a reason for the false impression
given. Thus a woman, who had palmed off her son black girls in geans on another woman,
was thought to be the lad's black girls in geans mistress because she embraced him; but
when her action black girls in geans was explained the charge was shown to be groundless.
Another example is from the Ajax of Theodectes, where Odysseus tells
black girls in geans Ajax the reason why, though he is really braver than Ajax, he is not
thought so.
24. Another line of argument black girls in geans is to show that if the cause is
present, the effect is present, and if absent, absent. For by
proving the cause you at once prove the effect, and conversely nothing
can exist without its cause. Thus Thrasybulus accused Leodamas of
having had his name recorded as a criminal on the slab in the
Acropolis, and of black girls in geans erasing the record in the time of the Thirty
Tyrants: black girls in geans to which Leodamas replied, 'Impossible: for the Thirty
would have trusted me all the more black girls in geans if black girls in geans my quarrel with the commons
had been inscribed on the slab.'
25. Another line is to consider whether black girls in geans the accused person can
take or could black girls in geans have taken a better course than that which he is
recommending or taking, or has taken. If black girls in geans he has not taken this
better course, it is clear that he is not guilty, since no one
deliberately and consciously chooses what is bad. This argument is,
however, fallacious,
black girls in geans for it often
becomes clear after the
event how
the action could have been done better, though before the black girls in geans event this
was far from clear.
26. Another line is, when black girls in geans a contemplated action is inconsistent with
any past action, to examine them both together. Thus, when the
people of Elea asked Xenophanes if they black girls in geans should or should not sacrifice
to Leucothea and mourn for her, he advised them not to black girls in geans mourn for her
if they thought her a goddess, and not to sacrifice to black girls in geans her if they
thought her a mortal woman.
27. Another line is to make previous mistakes the grounds of
accusation or black girls in geans defence. Thus, in the Medea of Carcinus the accusers
allege that Medea has slain her children; 'at all events', black girls in geans they say,
'they are not to be seen'-Medea having made the mistake of sending her
children away. In defence she argues that it is not her children,
but Jason, whom she