Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Persuasion

    deity figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    also in the atlas: Persuasion the idea

    goddess · goddess Persuasion

    in the texts

    Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

    Personified goddess used sarcastically in describing Demosthenes' rhetoric.

    For he supposes that you have by this time come to such a pitch of folly that you will credit even this, as though it were the goddess Persuasion that you have been nurturing in your city, and not a slanderer!
    against ctesiphon

    ExordiaClassical · Greek

    Persuasion (Peitho), personified as a deity named among the recipients of the reported sacrifices.

    We have also sacrificed to Persuasion and to the Mother of the Gods and to Apollo, and here also we had favorable omens.
    exordia

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Personified deity of persuasion invoked before the discourse.

    But the one that will be nearest and most to the point must be sought out, and, having called upon Persuasion and the Muses and Apollo, set forth as earnestly as we can.
    oration 1

    AntidosisClassical · Greek

    The goddess or divine personification of persuasion, invoked to show the honorable status of eloquence.

    But as a symptom, not only of their confusion of mind, but of their contempt for the gods, they recognize that Persuasion is one of the gods, and they observe that the city makes sacrifices to her every year, but when men aspire to share the power which the goddess possesses, they claim that such aspirants are being corrupted, as though their desire were for some evil thing.
    antidosis