3o8 Harry M. Hubhell, Ph.D., 



principles of justice and honor. Rhetoricians are hke pilots, 

 who have a good training- but may be bad men. 



II, 142, fr. Those who are troubled with the itch make it worse by scratch- 



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\ng. If they would only endure the annoyance of the itch, and 



think less about it they would get better. So with those who 

 suffer from sycophants. - 



II, 143, fr. I. [Giving everyone rhetorical ability with the idea that he will 

 use it only in self-defence] is like giving a brigand or slave a 

 sword, and bidding him strike only those who attack him. 



II, 144. fr- But this does not apply any more to philosophy and the 



Epicureans who refrain from such things, than the remarks of 

 those who combine contradictory principles in their instruction 

 affect medicine. 



II, 145, fr. [Men are lured away from their home towns; the small towns 



have to sacrifice their best to the large cities.] Many are 

 attracted by Athens with its enthusiasm for philosophy, and the 

 opportunity to enjoy the siren song of the philosophical schools; 

 some are detained by great capitals, Alexandria and Rome, 

 either by necessity (as hostages?) or by the fact that they can 

 derive therefrom some great advantage for themselves or their 

 country. This I say in excusing philosophers [for going to live 

 in great cities]. But perchance, some one else might be rude 

 enough to pray that many of the rhetors be compelled to reside 

 the rest of their lives in a foreign land, because the cities they 

 leave will be better off than those to which they go. 



Let us now take up the comparison of rhetoric and philosophy 

 in another fashion. One statement — that the promises of 

 rhetoric are possible of fulfillment, whereas the promises of 

 philosophy seem to be made only in jest, and are so far from 

 actuality that few have ever followed them. . . . 



II, 147, fr. Many rhetors have been banished or executed for many strange 



IV- reasons, even for insignificant reasons. All this risk they run, 



and yet only two or three of them can speak brilliantly, the 

 majority disgracefully. There follow examples of rhetors who met 

 with disaster, Themistocles, Alcibiades and Callistratus. 



II, 148, This remark praises rhetoric because it strengthens the wicked, 



fr. V. . ^^ . 



^ I should read in 1. 14 crvKO(pavTlas. The thought then parallels that of 

 fr. VII. Sycophants are not to be fought by their own weapons, but by 

 paying no attention to them. 



