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Harry M. Huhhell, Ph.D., 



For we do not know of anyone very brilliant before Pericles 

 and Callistratus and Demosthenes, unless he calls impressiveness 

 brilliance. 



We insult the gods as Oileus did. 



We must see that none of the young lose their desire for 

 rhetoric. 



. . . they do not profess to put justice into operation but 

 to be able to follow what anyone demands. Not only do the 

 rhetors not profess this but many, both of former generations 

 and the present, are not afcle though willing and conversant with 

 what is just and true. 



(Nothing intelligible.) 



. by making the science subject to rules of art, and 

 making similar concession to philosophy, not being able to help 

 himself otherwise . . . 



If rhetoric produces bold, daring, shameless men, or teachings 

 which lead to these qualities, he can find no occasion for the art, 

 and is left in the lurch. 



. . . says that shamelessness is an important aid to rhetoric ; 

 this remark was not ironical. 



In his speech about judges he mentions the man who appeared 

 without pay for Aristippus, since he could not speak for him- 

 self ; to one who asked Aristippus what good Socrates had done 

 him he replied, "Enabled me to have such men appear in my 

 behalf as will please my fellow philosophers." 



[Many who have composed such treatises] are outdone, not 

 only in action but in speech by laymen ; nothing is so persuasive 

 as truth and experience in affairs. 



It appears to me that the most ignoble thing of all is to per- 

 suade the weakness of the crowd, and concoct some reason for 

 doing anything. 



The philosophers though able [to do these things] order them 

 passed on to those who have toiled and danced,^ to publicans and 

 sinners. If he had said not to yield but to claim their results 

 as our own . . . 



Rhetoricians quarrel and philosophers are wicked. 



It is [not] proven that the art of medicine does not produce 

 health when the physicians are outdone by laymen who have 



^ Referring to Aeschines says Sudhaus in the index, s. v. xop^^w- 



