2,Z2 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



II, 63. His second reason was dissatisfaction with political conditions. 



But the golden age is past and sudden improvements are 



impossible, 

 col. LVIII. y^Q shall answer, if opportunity offers, his remarks on Ae'^is 



directed against us, dividing the problems about these subjects 



and all connected wnth them. 



BOOK VII. 



This book offers little that is new to one who has perused its prede- 

 cessors. Its theme is a comparison of rhetoric and philosophy, and after 

 the fashion of Philodemus the discussion is largely a criticism of other 

 works on rhetoric. Mention is made of Aristo (I, 328, fr. XII, 360, col. 

 LXXI), and of Diogenes (Babylonius), (I, 346, col. XLVII. 347. XLIX, 

 355, LXIV) and a considerable portion of the book appears to be a dis- 

 cussion of the Stoic attitude toward rhetoric. Another section deals with 

 the kinds of proof, those subject to the rules of art, and those not so 

 subject, and this seems to be a criticism of Aristotle. But the fragments 

 are too scanty to allow us to trace the details of the argument. In brief 

 it is as follows : rhetoric finds its only field for usefulness in public, 

 and there rhetors are of more hindrance to a state than advantage; phi- 

 losophy, however, leads the way to a happj'^ life in private, removed from 

 the cares of politics. 



I, 326, fr. He said emphatically at the beginning, "One must pursue that 



^^^- which produces a painless life." 



I, 327, fr. There is no art of persuasion. 



J ■ £j. ... the former (i. e. questions of advantage and disad- 



XI. vantage considered abstractly) they will consider the task of 



philosophy, the latter (i. e. persuading the people) the task of 

 rhetoric. However the questions of advantage which he men- 

 tions are questions of interest to the people if it is a question 

 of tiu-ning the city over to the enemy, or of confiscating the goods 

 of the powerful citizens, and this cannot be decided by a 

 philosopher. 



I, 328, fr. ... he appears to have spoken briefly and luisatisfactorily 



about rhetoric, and in treating of philosophy to have relied on 

 some of the works of Aristo. 



T, 329, col. • • • to be able to praise persuasively a mode of life which 



we prefer, and again to censure the same mode of life if we see 

 fit; so that the argument that the mode of life which we advise 



XII. 



II. 



