3i8 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



much worse than that accorded to the sick, much less acquire 

 virtue, just as if virtue were not a real good, or there were no 

 real cure which the people apply when they judge a man in the 

 wrong. 

 I. 265. col. "Furthermore it has been said that we (i. e. the rhetoricians) 



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• fight not against external enemies at whose hand it is honorable 



to die, but against internal enemies at whose hands it is disgrace- 

 ful to die ; that we have nothing to do with virtue — for that did 

 not save Socrates ; — nor with medicine — that saves men from 

 disease, not from prison ; nor with any other profession than 

 rhetoric which helps those who strive not only for their lives 

 but to obtain money, and to prevent disfranchisement and exile." 

 T. 266, col. However we shall repel our enemies with their own weapons. 



XXX. Virtue did not help Socrates because when he was led to court 



it was lacking in some people. Medicine and other professions 



help even in prison. If a philosopher falls a victim to such a 



T ^o ' death, it is not a disgrace to him but to those who kill him. 

 1, 200, COl. ' * 



XXXI. However he does not live in fear of meeting such a fate. For 

 the superstitions of the common people do not disturb one who 

 is persuaded that he shall have no existence after death. 



I, 269, col. li for these reasons persuasion was reasonably considered a 



good by them, she would have been deified by philosophy. The 

 fact that through it no little harm is done is not true of phi- 

 losophical persuasion, but of rhetorical which Pisistratus used; 

 wherefore it does not belong to the category of the greatest 

 goods as they perversely say,^^ nor to the special categories of 

 power and wealth. If one does not use these well, he would 

 receive much harm. Philosophy shows us how to find and use 

 everything necessary for a happy life. 



BOOK VI. 



In the sixth book Philodemus attacks the philosophical schools which 

 advocated the study of rhetoric. The extant portion discusses Nausi- 

 phanes and Aristotle. The attack was extended to others as we can see 

 from II, 64, col. LVIII, but the identity of the persons attacked cannot be 

 determined. In this book as in many others, Philodemus is merely para- 



" Reading for xal dis 1. 15 /ca/ccSs with von Arnim, Hermes XXVIII 

 (1893) p. 154- 



XXXII. 



