The Rlicforica of Pliilodemus. 321 



If some of the rhetorical sophists because of their pohtical I, 284, col. 



insight or experience can choose an advantageous course, we ^^' 

 must not assign the credit to rhetoric but to some other source. 



It is not plain how one is to pass from general truths to the I, 284, col. 



application of these truths in particular instances.^ ^^' 



ivOvfJiri iJMTa differ from crrjfJieLa and Tn(TTti)[jMTa. 



The relation between truth and its opposite is not the same I> 285, col. 

 as between two probabilities, one more probable than the other. j,qJ yj 

 We must have either truth or falsehood. Would one accept 

 probability in place of truth except in cases where truth is 

 impossible of attainment? 



A man should examine carefully and search for truth, and not \'^^^' ^°^' 

 use vain enthymemes. For it is clear that one who states the 

 actual good points of which the accuser denies the existence, 

 and thus lessens the exaggeration in the minds of the judges, 

 would attain the useful result of expressing the full content of 

 the argument which comes from a study of nature. 



A study of nature does not give one a knowledge of the j 287 col 

 "good," the "true" or the "just." vm.' 



One who claims that a knowledge of what course of action to I, 287, col. 

 pursue comes from a study of the universe, ought to specify ^^* 

 [how it is done]. 



It is necessary to make choices with a view to happiness, and I, 288, 

 not with some vain hope. They ought to show that (ftvo-ioXoyia ^^^- •^■ 

 leads to happiness, because most people think that (^uo-ioAoyta 

 is far removed from what is useful in life. 



In the interval between the publication of the first and second volumes 

 Sudhaus discovered that this papyrus formed the upper half of the orig- 

 inal, and that the lower half was Hercul. Voll. coll. alt. torn. VII, fol. 

 44-67. He combined the two fragments in the second volume. From this 

 point therefore I follow vol. II. 



He (Nausiphanes) said that the natural philosopher and the II, i, col. 

 "wise man" will persuade their audience. He left no doubt • 

 that by wise man he meant himself. But the essence of method 

 lies in concealing the method. . . . 



Certainly he will not expect such a task to belong to the u^ 2, col. 2. 

 rhetorical sophists or the statesmen. 



° I. e. how a knowledge of the laws of nature derived from a study of 

 science can enable one to decide a particular point of political policy. 



