300 Harry M. Huhhell, Ph.D., 



I, 190, col. treatises on rhetoric are the sole standard of correct speech. 



'^"'J; ^91, If he called rhetorical speech the only correct speech, his state- 

 ment would be consistent. And that is what he actually appears 

 to mean when he says that at the time poets and educated men 

 flourished in Greece all were inferior to the sophists in correct- 

 ness of speech. He does not permit us to understand him to be 

 speaking of ordinary conversation, because he cites examples of 

 faults in diction, and corrects them. If he said that the rhetors 

 were successful in rhetoric he was speaking either with reference 

 to the dialectician (a position which we refute) or with reference 

 to other educated persons or artists, each of whom understands 

 the principles of his profession better than a layman, as for 

 example he himself has represented Philo the architect address- 



y ^ . ing the people about the arsenal." But study of technical 



XI'\ rhetoric has never advanced anyone. 



Section II. 



Delivery. 



I, 193, col. Of the six, or as some say seven, parts of rhetoric, Athenaeus 



' ■ ^^' says that the most important is delivery,^- and we agree that a 



good delivery lends dignity to the speaker, secures the attention 



of the audience and sways their emotions. But if^^ it is more 



the task of rhetoric to teach this than it is the task of dialectic 



or grammar one would desire to learn it. One teaches how to 



argue, the other how to read. If they claim that delivery in 



drama comes under the head of rhetoric, we congratulate them 



on their sense. But if actors do not need assistance from the 



I, T94, col. rhetorician why do they not allow us, too, to decide on the delivery 



^'^I"- proper to our own sphere? The fact that, uncertain in the 



" On Philo the architect cf. Cic. De Orat. I, 14, 62. The use which the 

 rhetorician made of Philo may be estimated from the words of Cicero, 

 Neque enim, si Philonem ilium architectum, qui Atheniensibus arma- 

 mentarium fecit, constat perdiserte populo rationem operis sui reddidisse, 

 existimandum est architecti potius artificio disertum quam oratoris fuisse. 

 Is oBtos oLvrbs Demetrius of Phalerum? See the discussion by Fuhr in 

 Rhein. Mus. LVII (1902) p. 434. 



'^ I adopt the emendation of Gomperz, Sitzungsb. d. k. Ak. in Wien, vol. 

 CXXIII, p. 33, quoted in Sudhaus' apparatus. 



"Reading in 1. 25 d for ov with von Arnim. Hermes XX\'III (1893) 

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