Rhetoric   

when others are subject to the same grounds for suspicion but are
admitted to be in fact innocent of the charge: e.g. 'Must I be a
profligate because I am well-groomed? Then so-and-so must be one too.'
Another, if other people have been calumniated by the same man or some
one else, or, without being calumniated, have been suspected, like
yourself now, and yet have been proved innocent. Another way is to
return calumny for calumny and say, 'It is monstrous to trust the
man's statements when you cannot trust the man himself.' Another is
when the question has been already decided. So with Euripides' reply
to Hygiaenon, who, in the action for an exchange of properties,
accused him of impiety in having written a line encouraging perjury-
"My tongue hath sworn: no oath is on my soul. "
Euripides said that his opponent himself was guilty in bringing into
the law-courts cases whose decision belonged to the Dionysiac
contests. 'If I have not already answered for my words there, I am
ready to do so if you choose to prosecute me there.' Another method is
to denounce calumny, showing what an enormity it is, and in particular
that it raises false