rhetoric is a metalanguage that describes and explains how language works.

By one estimate the tyrants executed 5 percent of the entire population of Athens in under eight months. Execution in Athens was a grisly affair. If you couldn’t afford to pay for your own dose of lethal hemlock, you were fastened to a wooden board, clamped in irons by the neck, wrists, and ankles, and left exposed to the full sun to die a slow,