The rhetorical commentators of sixteenth-century Europe consider poems as discourses designed to persuade and interpret them accordingly. They thus bring out their thesis and the arguments in support of the latter, which amounts to “link up” various passages of the text, according to the original meaning of sullogizein in Greek: to link (sun) one proposition (logos) to another. Syllogisms in poetry? The article tackles this scandal drawing on a recently published book that makes Horace the emblem of a poetry for which a rhetorical reading is a contradiction in terms.