362 



Harry M. HuhbeU, Ph.D., 



II, 289, fr. 

 Xllla. 

 fr. Xlllb. 



II, 290, fr. 

 XIV. 



II, 291, fr. 

 XV. 



II, 291, fr. 

 XVI. 



fr. XVII. 



II, 292, fr. 

 XVIII. 



II, 292, fr. 

 XIX. 



fr. XX. 



II, 293, fr. 

 XXI. 



fr. XXII. 



more methodical if we proceed from some principles in making- 

 our divisions. 



No philosopher is able to speak in public. 



The rhetor ought to possess Hermes' wand "with which he 

 soothes the eyes of men whom he will, and others sleeping he 

 awakes," and the embroidered g^irdle of Aphrodite "in which 

 there is love," i. e. speech which is not without charm, which 

 is the peculiar product of rhetoric. And he ought to be ac- 

 quainted with constitutions, laws, edicts and customs, and in ad- 

 dition to this decisions reached in assembly and court. 



Rhetoric has said nothing to us about freeing us from love 

 of glory, but rather increases it by praising its advantages, and 

 holding out glory as a prize. 



. . the aforesaid logographers and the comic poets of their 

 day, and the writers of biography. They demonstrate that these 

 men have been servants of their own states and of the rest of 

 Greece. 



If the rhetor cannot guide his own household, consisting of 

 wife, children, slaves and free servants, how can he control the 

 greater ship, the state, consisting of more children and women? 



(Nothing.) 



It takes the same skill^' to tune one lyre as to tune many in 

 unison, and the results are evident. Scarcely one of these is 

 recorded to have served his country well on an embassy, some 

 are convicted of malfeasance, and others, if they accomplish 

 anything, do not accomplish anything useful. 



In order that some may not think that we pass over in silence 

 what has been written, matters of no importance or small points 

 savoring of Stoic toil, we shall present the arguments on both 

 sides. 



(Nothing.) 



He will say what is advantageous ; and will agree that what 

 is advantageous is good, and the same for private citizens and 

 communities ; contrariwise, what is harmful is evil. But only 

 philosophy possesses the knowledge of these subjects, and it 

 must be said that this is not productive of statesmanshij). 



(Nothing.) 



" Cf. II, 221, 223. 



