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Hello This is from the Oxford Academic (captatio benevolentiae) https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/61673/chapter-abstract/548549341?redirectedFrom=fulltext This phrase ‘fishing for good will’ well describes what the ancient rhetoricians advise for the exordium of a speech (see rhetoric, roman). The hearer is to be rendered ‘attentive, teachable, and well disposed’: and the prescription for…
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