Note 37 — Book III

λέξις. It should be observed that Aristotle is not here divorcing “manner” from “matter.” Book III opens a third approach, which presupposes the preceding approaches. This seems to be insufficiently considered by H. P. Breitenbach (The De compositione of Dionysius of Halicarnassus considered with reference to the Rhetoric of Aristotle), who regards Book III as a deviation from the philosophic position of the preceding books.