344 Harry M. Hubbell, Ph.D., 



II, 182, fr. Therefore we must say that the rhetor is not a flatterer, and 



rhetoric is not flattery ; for the statesman was said to practice 

 what would help all the citizens/" 



fr. VIII. [Plato] showed that rhetoric produced pleasure, and shared 



this quality with cookery and personal adornment, and showed 

 in addition that one produced something not noble, and another 

 something" disgraceful.^^ 



£ 



II. 184, fr. (Nothing.) 



fr. IV. I pass over the fact that they criticize Gorgias, and ask him to 



submit to an examination on Greek usage, since all sciences 

 depend on words for their power. ^^ 



(Nothing.) 



. . . he knows what weaving and music and medicine deal 

 with, but inquires about rhetoric, because he does not know. 



(Nothing.) 



Plato in the Gorgias. . . . 



(Nothing.) 



Sardanapallus . . . deeds in war. And yet some mythog- 



raphers introduce stories about him.^^ 

 188, fr. Themistocles^* . . . that marvelous wall around the city as 



Sardanapallus surrounded Anchiale and Tarsus. For if they 



pride themselves on this, every man would be a statesman. 

 IV. One thing I do not think worthy of notice, that he considers 



it not to be the task of a statesman to make a small city great. 

 VI. This grammarian having observed what has escaped notice 



everywhere, has not failed to collect examples of cocks who 



" Cf . Plato, Gorg. 463A, 464B. 



" Cf. Plato, Gorg. 462C. 



^ Cf. Plato, Gorg. 4S0D. 



^^ The phrase w^p?t Mt^ which I have not translated refers to the 

 building of Anchiale and Tarsus in a single day; Arrian, Anab. II, 5, 4; 

 Strabo XIV, 5, 9, p. 672; Athen. XII, 530b quoted by Fuhr, Rhein. Mus. 

 LVII (1902), p. 429, and previously by Gomperz, Zeit. f. d. ost. Gymn. 

 XXIII (1872) p. 24. 



'■• QefiiffTo] k\4ovs. He is also referred to in fr. IV infra ir6\iv iK /j-iKpa^ 

 ■jroiTjaai txe-fdX-qv. The restoration was made independently by both Wil- 

 amowitz, Hermes XXXIV (1899) p. 636, and Fuhr, Rhein. Mus. LVII 

 (1902) p. 429. 



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