284 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



is not the result of art, but of practice alone? We might say 

 TToXX^S <f>i.\oTrovLa<; icrrl SrfXovoTL to (f>LXoao<p€ti' kol rj (^tAo(70<^ta, but no 

 one would assume that philosophy is the result of labor alone. 

 So by TToXX^s i(TTiv rj prjTopiKrj rpi/S^s kol avvr]6eLa<s Epicurus means 

 Setrat ttoAAiJs TpL/Srj^ Kol avvr]OcLa<;. 



Furthermore, from the words that this man has used it is 

 uncertain whether Epicurus assumed that rhetoric was the result 

 of practice alone, or of art and practice, or largely but not 

 entirely of practice. For in the sentence, ©avfiao-Tov 8?;. el a-v 



fi€V ovOkv ii^Lpyov 8ta t^v rjXiKiav iv rfj prjTopiKrj hwafxtL irpoi-^^tiv o 

 8oK€l TpL^rjq eivat koX crvvr)6eLa<i ttoAA^s, does o SokcT ktX. refer tO 

 p7)Topi.Krj 8vvdp.eL or virepix^Lvl It is possible to take this to mean 

 that the power of rhetoric can be acquired by art, but to surpass 

 all in it requires practice. This, however, I do not hold to be 

 true. If you wish to consider how the author of the book 

 understood this, he will say that hoKti refers no more to virepixuv 

 than- to prjTopLKrj, but you have rejected my plain statement, and 

 use the tricks of the sycophant against me. 



I. iig, 28= [In a fragmentary passage Philodemus promises to discuss 



buppl. 59, later passages from Metrodorus.] 



I i-'o 10= Epicurean authorities hold that sophistic rhetoric does not 



Suppl. 60, 6. perform the task of practical and political rhetoric. This can 

 be proved by passages from Epicurus, Hermarchus and ]\Ietro- 

 dorus. The ability to speak in assembly and court comes from 

 practice and observation of political events. 



Section II-c. 



I j^2 ocz=z Of the third section only the title can be determined with certainty. 



Suppl. 61, Sophistic rhetoric is an art of epideixis, and of the arrangement 



10. - , . , 



of speeches, written and extemporaneous. 



To which we may add the passage 

 I, 135, 40. Sophistic is not the knowledge of political rhetoric ; this sec- 



tion we shall take up in the Hypomnematismus^® which is to 

 follow. In that will be demonstrated that political ability cannot 

 come from these sophistical schools any more than from the 

 common schools or from the philosophical schools ; that often- 

 times the possession of it is responsible for no small mischief, 

 and does not even bring success in actual law cases. 



^ He refers to the third book, now lost. 



