348 Harry M. Huhbell, Ph.D., 



describes, but the majority have given practical advice showing 

 deep thought, and have acted with great boldness in opposition 

 to those who favored such distributions, and history will bear 

 us out. 



After this he says, "The statesman ought to be able to fill 

 the offices in the state; the rhetor cannot do this, and is not 

 fitted for statesmanship." 



II, 209, col. The term statesman, properly used, is not stretched to include 

 the general or admiral; similarly, one able to advise, and plead 

 causes receives his name from his possessing this particular form 

 of experience, even if he is not able to speak well. But if, as 

 oftentimes happens, one called a statesman in the narrow mean- 

 ing, knows how to be a general, or fill other offices, he will not 

 receive the power in this line, nor does the a'bility in this pro- 

 fession far removed from his own come to him as a result of 

 his political ability." 



II, 211, col. (Diogenes speaks:) "The philosopher is not only a good 

 dialectician, grammarian, poet and orator, in short skilled in all 

 arts, but knows what is useful to cities, not Athens alone but 

 Lacedaemon. For in the philosophic state there is no law, but 

 the divine precepts of the philosophers and truth prevail. The 

 philosopher will be general and admiral, treasurer and tax-col- 

 lector, and can fill all offices, since the statesman must have a 

 knowledge of all these matters." 



II. 212, col. But if we must express our opinion about this, the successful 



I^- statesmen who have never studied the Stoic philosophy^ seem 



possessed of rhetorical ability ; Pisistratus and Clisthenes were 

 orators, and Themistocles the greatest general of them all, and 

 Pericles who made Athens powerful and rich and famous, and 

 Pausanias who won the battle of Plataca, and Cimon who showed 

 by his victories on land and sea how to increase the power of 

 the state, and Alcibiades who defeated the Peloponnesians, and 

 Timotheus the pupil of Isocrates.** 



' The implication is that neither does rhetorical ability imply any military 

 ability, a denial of the claim of Isocrates for rhetoric; cf. De Pace 54, 

 Panath. 143. 



* I should prefer to read at the beginning of col. IX, tt)v '^tuiktiv 

 4>i.\o<TO(f)lav, and make this Philodemus' reply to the Stoic argument of the 

 preceding column. 



* Tl/x66€os 6 fj.a67}T-f]s was suggested by Fuhr, Rhein. Mus. LVII (1902) 

 P- 430. 



