The RJictorica of Philodemus. 345 



lower the crest and look at the tail. Let us praise him because 

 he attends to the slanders of the opponents of Demosthenes who 

 did not receive a fifth of the votes, and does not attend to the 

 Athenians who disfranchised the accuser. ^^ 



V 



Beating his father or refusing him food or shelter. jj jg^ fr. I. 



The prolepsis of rhetoric is less limited. , -r^j 



He did not make his investigation systematic, but either by n^ igo, 

 the lack of differentiation of the idea which he has subordinated ^i"- V. 

 to the names or . . . 



They thought that most of the philosophical rhetors devote fj-. vi. 

 their energy to this one part and the following part ; that those 

 who attack rhetoric insist that it is no art. 



d 



. . . art is the art of beautiful speech, by which they mean tt ^^ ^ 



persuasive speech ; and the art w^as the art of beautiful speech, 

 so that speech came 'by nature, but beautiful speech by art. 



How when they have come thus far, can they profess to teach n, 191, fr. 

 that few arts involve imitation? m* 



To speak in any random way is the work of nature; to speak fr. iv. 

 beautifully is the work of art. This seems true to me, and you 

 also hold the same opinion. . . . All the so-called conjectural 

 arts . . . 



One may accidentally speak beautifully now and then ; but to jj jg2 

 attain this end frequently requires art. fr. V. 



About the end of art, and whether it is theoretical or empirical. ,.-. . ^ 



II, 192, fr. I. 



(Nothing.) II, 193, fr. 



Metrodorus teaches in regard to rhetoric that it does not arise i • jyj 

 from a study of science. 



(Nothing.) 



fr. IV. 



^^ Gomperz 1. c. p. 25 suggests that the anonymous author here quoted 

 had collected all derogatory passages in Aeschines, and that reference is 

 here made to Timarch. cap. 23, 25 (about cock fights). Wilamowitz 1. c. 

 reads KXlvovras for x'^^'"^"''''^^ quoting Phrynichus fr. 16 1. 5 eTrxTj^' dX^KTwp 

 dovXov ws kXivcls TrrepSv. 



^^ This section is erroneously designated by Sudhaus as f. 



