2 76 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



as an artist; (3) its principles are easily acquired; (4) it depends 



largely on practice and memory. In short rhetoric has no method. 



T. 64, II ff. Bromius in his discussion of the arts passes over sophistical 



= Suppl. 32, j-hgj-oric on the ground that it is not regarded as an art either bv 

 19 ff. . . '=' . ° 



people in general or by Epicurus. The only art that he will 



allow in this connection is politics. How can he do this when 

 sophistic is an art and is so considered by the leaders of our 

 school? If he considers sophistic to be no a:rt why does he not 

 prove his statement? How can he make the claim that the 

 good statesman has calculated the means of arousing the emo- 

 tions, and of persuasion, and uses these continually? Any suc- 

 cess which the speakers attain they attain because of practice, 

 but they do not succeed universally. Furthermore, his statement 

 that the technical treatises of the rhetoricians are not entirely 

 barren is in direct contradiction to the teachings of Epicurus 

 who says that all such treatises are useless for producing the 

 political faculty. 



Section II. 

 Pliilodcuuis' theories about rhetoric. 



12 ff. 



I 68 I ff = ^^'^ shall now present our own views under the following 

 Suppl. 34, heads : 



(a) Definition of art according to usage. 



(b) Epicurean doctrine declares that sophistic rhetoric is an art. 



(c) Sophistic is an art of epideixis and writing of speeches, but 

 not of forensic and deliberative oratory. 



(d) Politics depends on investigation and practice, but has none 

 of the essentials of an art. 



Section Il-a. 

 Definition of 'art.' 



An art, as the term is commonly used, is a state or condition 

 resulting from the observation of certain common and elementary 

 principles, which apply to the majority of cases, accomplishing 

 such a result as cannot be attained by one who has not studied 

 it, and doing this regularly and certainly and not by conjecture. 

 For the moment we may leave out of the discussion whether or not 

 a looser use of the word sanctions the inclusion imder the heading 

 'art' of all occupations depending wholly on practice. This 



