346 Harry M. Huhhell, Ph.D., 



II, 194, Since this is so what do they mean by trusting to foreign . . . , 



or what has Anacharsis said on this subject? For we acknowl- 

 edge that rhetoric is of foreign extraction. 



fr. VI, VII. (Nothing.) 



Hypomnematicon. 



For a statement of the relation of the Hypomnematicon to the ITepi 

 prjTopiKTjs see the Introduction p. VII. 



II, 196, fr. (Nothing.) 



j' ^^- No artist can perform the task of another artist ; a com- 



11] ' mander of cavalry cannot command a ship, etc. 



fr. IV. • • • Theophrastus lived all his life in the privacy of phi- 



losophy, ignorant of the affairs of kings. ^ 



II, 198, [Rhetoric is] the best assistant for all the villainv in this world. 



Irivi-IX. (Nothing.) 



II, 199, Advantage and disadvantage. . . . It is evident that we 



^t"- X. shall find that the argument amounts to this ; "The wise man 



has knowledge of these and other things." 



fr. XI. (Nothing.) 



II. 200, fr. (Nothing.) 



XII ' fc> / 



fr XIII. Critolaus, it seems, taught strategy, the duties of kings, equi- 



tation and navigation. 



fr. XIV. (Nothing.) 



II 201 fr ^^ they search for the mighty rhetors, surpassing all others. 



XV. they are carried back to the time of Corax in whose day 



Themistocles and Aristides flourished. The ability possessed by 

 Odysseus, Nestor, Solon, Themistocles and Pericles we do not 

 call rhetoric ; . . . 



fr. XVI. (Nothing.) 



VYTT .... they happened to have conversed intelligently, 



powerfully and nobly. 



Coll. I-XXIV attack the Stoic doctrine that the philosopher is the only 

 orator. Passages are quoted from Diogenes of Babylon and refuted in 

 turn. 



jj According to Diogenes there has never been a perfect states- 



col. I. man, such as you^ say they ought to be, not even Phocion whom 



Demosthenes called the pruning knife of his speeches.^ 



^ Or, more probably 'of political aflfairs,' reading 7roXtTi/v-]a)^ in 1. 8. 



^ Addressing the Stoics. 



' Wilamowitz, Hermes, XXXIV (1899) p. 637, reads in line 26 cr(p[a-iida]. 

 For the anecdote cf. Plutarch Phoc. 5, Dem. 10: Demosthenes said of 

 Phocion as he mounted the bema, v tQv ifxQiv \6yup kottU avlaTarai. 



