Book of Collections on the Art of Preaching

Since every ecclesiastical speech is made either about some substantive matter or some business—just as if it were in a trial regarding a person and a fact—and since those things which are the subject of the question cannot provide faith to the doubt, therefore, those things which are attributed to persons and to businesses will provide places for confirmation.

ATTRIBUTES are called circumstances because, surrounding the substance, they create the questions. For unless there is one who did it, and a cause why he did it, and a place and time when he did it, and also the manner and ability, if these are lacking, the case will not stand.

There are certain attributes of a person, which you will be able to keep in memory with these verses:
Name, nature, and fortune, and pursuit,
The person's livelihood, habit, affection, and accident.

There are indeed certain attributes of a business, which are evident in this meter:
The following lines are underlined in red ink:
What indeed, why, by what aids, where, how, when.
Cicero called these the "who" and "what."

A PLACE locus a seat/source of argument is the seat of an argument.
The following definition is underlined in red ink:
AN ARGUMENT is a probable invention for creating faith, or, as Tullius Cicero says in his Topics: An argument is the reason for a doubtful matter that creates faith.

Some PLACES are drawn from those things which inhere in the thing itself about which the issue is concerned; others are assumed from the outside, which are called remote.

Those within the thing itself include: the whole, its parts, the note, and those things which are in some way related to the thing about which the question is asked.

THE WHOLE, according to Cicero, is a definition; according to Themistius, it is the substance.