340 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



I, 377, It is idle to introduce the phrase "wiser men to judge them" 



^° ■ ■ whom the rhetor was unwilHng to serve, and toward whom his 



faculty is useless. For he will introduce as a reply a similar 



remark applying to the statesman who has experience in these 



matters, alluding to the art which produced Themistocles and 



Pericles. 



I, 377, col. Potentates even more than democracies pity and almost admire 



^ • those whom they subdue if they possess the charm of these 



virtues, e. g. Philip and Python,'' Ptolemy and Demetrius of 



Phalerum. 



I. 378, col. In addition let it be said that the most powerful speech is that 



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• with rigorous proof, i. e. with the characteristics of philosophy 



rather than of rhetoric, since "most powerful" seems to mean 

 "most powerful in reference to some object." 



I, 379, col. ... so that to exclude these fqualities] is to exclude politics, 



CIII • • • • • 



and like rhetoric few things, and these decisive, have these 



[qualities]. 

 I, 37a col. In regard to the third point let it be said that even if the 



speech be very persuasive, if the possessor of this power does 



not know how and whom and when to persuade, he is as useless 



as if he were a rudder. 

 T, 380, col. For even if Pericles easily persuaded the people to do what 



was lawful, another wovild not in turn succeed in currying the 



favor of the mob. and the populace would never endure 



philosophy. 

 I, 381, col. For he says it is as if a runaway slave expelled the master of 



^^^- the ship, and let it drift down stream . . . with the boldest 



to serve as pilots and please the passengers. 

 I, 381, col. Since he is like one who feigns grief for the loss of propertv 



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he never possessed, no one would pity him. But we know of 



masters and pilots who have even been killed as well as banished 



by fugitive slaves.^ 

 I, 382. col. ... by the statute laws not of philosophers but of rhetors. 



CVIII. j)^^^ what sort of philosophers does he mean? If we urge him 



to indicate one of the political [philosophers] they cannot be 



considered statesmen. 



' Probably the pupil of Isocrates and orator of distinction who acted as 

 Philip's emissary to Athens in 343 B. C. 

 * Runaway = rhetorician ; masters = philosophers. 



