Commonplaces and argumentation in Cicero
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Michael Leff
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Article
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1996
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Despite the contemporary revival of interest in topical invention among rhetoricians and informal logicians, the 'commonplaces' (loci communes) of classical rhetoric have received little attention. When considered at all, they are typically dismissed as sterile or mechanistic substitutes for genuine