356 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



II, 256, col. rhetors^* prove that statesmen are produced by rhetoric. One 

 ^^^^- must not think that we have mentioned this proof merely for 



the sake of talking, but that it is true, and that those are mis- 

 taken who pay money to sophists. Epicvirus says, "Whenever 

 they listen to their displays and panegyric speeches, and are be- 

 guiled because the speech is not about a contract nor public policy 

 as it is in assembly and court (for in these they pay close atten- 

 tion to the speaker, because they have something at stake in the 

 assembly, and they are bound by an oath if they are sitting on 

 the jury, whereas in the case of sophistical displays they care 

 nothing for the oath, for they have not sworn to judge fairly 

 nor do they care whether what is said is advantageous to the 

 II. 257, col. state or not, for it is not a question of war and peace, such as 

 ^^^ they have to vote on at times ; and if the speech deals with war 



or peace or some other subject discussed in assemblies, it does 

 not deal with a timely or pressing question, consequently they 

 listen to displays without any feeling of anxiety) whenever they 

 listen to such a speech they give no heed whether it is advan- 

 tageous or disadvantageous, or even true or false, but are be- 

 guiled by the sound and the periods, parisoses and antitheses and 

 homoioteleuta, and think that if they could talk like that thev 

 would succeed in assembly and court, failing to recognize that 

 they would not endure anyone who spoke like that in assembly 

 II. 258, or court. That is why they spend money on sophists. Then im- 



col. v. mediately they recognize that they have lost their money, for 



they get no result but hard feeling and worry ; hard feeling 

 because they have been trained in rhetoric, and if their speech is 

 successful they are thought to mislead the jury; but if they fail 

 they think they have paid the sophist in vain ; they are anxious 

 about these very points, and still more how they will seem to 

 come off with the speech, or about not misleading the jury by 

 appearances. They have these troubles, and besides they have 

 II 2!;o col ^° attend carefully to conjunctions and cases, not abiding by their 

 Vlii. own rules but by those of others. For these and other reasons 



some study with the rhetoricians ; in some of these they are de- 

 ceived more than in others as we have stated above. 



The rhetors among the sophists behave no better, not even 

 when they say that one can prove that their art produces states- 



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