312 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



character, and that such studies bring no one happiness, and that 

 no one except a madman would be interested in them. For apart 

 from the knowledge an educated man ought to have, he should 

 obey the laws, realizing that they apply to him. . . . 

 I, 234, col. If the goodwill of one's country is esteemed the fairest crown 



of victory, the defeated also ought to fare well. A common 

 country should bestow benefits in common. But as we see in 

 one country a rhetor neglected rather than crowned, and in 

 another country one is banished, tortured and insulted, let us 

 without claiming a share in the ability to manage a city by per- 

 suasion, be content [to live the quiet life of a philosopher]. 

 I, 234, Very few if anv of the [tyrants] have been overthrown bv 



^° • their mercenaries, whereas many statesmen have been rejected 



by their fellow citizens, and slaughtered like cattle, nay they are 

 worse off than cattle, for the butcher does not hate the cattle, 

 but the tortures of the dying statesmen are made more poignant 

 by hatred. 

 I, 235, col. It is claimed for rhetoric that it protects property like a strong 



^^- tower. First if we are not rich we do not need rhetoric. Sec- 



ondly it is much better to lose one's wealth if one can not keep 

 it otherwise, than to spend one's life in rhetoric. 



But Cephenides (Drone) the rich man is a prey to slaves- 

 and prophets as well as to sycophants. 



I, 236, col. . . . they are unable to make the multitude friendlv to them, 



VII 



as the crowd of politicians can. 



I, 237, col. The philosophers are not vexed if people, like foolish sheep 



or cattle, attend to an inferior, but are satisfied that what they 



say, particularly about the attitude of the common people, shall 



please the few ; and in action they are most blameless, nor do 



they as slaves of all, try to rule everything for themselves. 



For they do not expect to satisfy their wants at the expense of 



the public. But those philosophers who envy other's property 



while they pretend to need nothing, and are detected being coy, 



these men the people despise, but consider them less wretched 



than the rhetors, because so many obtain the same result that 



the rhetors obtain. 



I, 239, col. It is numbered among the glories of rhetoric that it can "sail 



IX- the deep seas"^ while those who speak briefly are rejected like 



^ ireXayl^eiv — fiaKpoXoyfiv. Cf. the discussion of fiaKpoXoyla in Plato, 

 Gorgias 449 B ; Prot. 334C— 338B ; Cic. De Orat. Ill 36, 145; Quint. XII 

 proem. 



