Book 1
3.2
Now the hearer must necessarily be either a mere spectator or a judge, and a judge either of things past or of things to come.All three kinds of hearers are regarded as judges (the mere spectator as a critic), although strictly κριτής should be limited to the law courts. For instance, a member of the general assembly is a judge of things to come; the dicast, of things past; the mere spectator, of the ability of the speaker.
3.3
Therefore there are necessarily three kinds of rhetorical speeches, deliberative, forensic, and epideictic.
3.3
The deliberative kind is either hortatory or dissuasive; for both those who give advice in private and those who speak in the assembly invariably either exhort or dissuade. The forensic kind is either accusatory or defensive; for litigants must necessarily either accuse or defend. The epideictic kind has for its subject praise or blame.
