Assertion: cicero's appeal | /r/HasProperty | emotion
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text: He championed the learning of Greek (and Greek rhetoric), contributed to Roman ethics, linguistics, philosophy, and politics, and emphasized the importance of all forms of appeal (emotion, humor, stylistic range, irony and digression in addition to pure reasoning) in oratory.
text: Though Cicero offers multiple examples of topics that provide different conventions for presenting proofs (326-327), he does not spend the time or attention on this aspect of his presentation that he then applies to emotional and character appeals, nor does he present these proofs as a privileged form of “truth” or “logic,” but rather as another device for presenting an argument.