Antonius covers many of the tools that Aristotle offers in his _Rhetoric_: distinction between artistic and inartistic proof (p. 324), manners of inventing ethical appeals (p. 324 and 329), topical invention (p. 326), manners of inventing pathetic proof (p. 328). He even praises Aristotle for compiling so much information about the techne of rhetoric. Is it fair to say that Antonius is a modern-day Aristotle? If so, is Aristotle making the rhetor(ician) into a “mechanic,” as Crassus sez Antonius is doing (p. 320)? Is there something more to Aristotle’s (or Antonius’s) approach to oratorical production that Crassus fails to see?