382 Harry M. Huhhell, Ph.D. 



example ; closing his fist and then opening it he said the first 

 was dialectic, the second, rhetoric (Sextus, 7; Orator, 32, 113, 

 and elsewhere). Quintilian, however, seems to have been the 

 first to revert to the argument from the similarity of the two 

 subjects, that if dialectic is an art, as all acknowledge, then 

 rhetoric must be also. 



In following the course of the debate as exhibited in our 

 principal authorities, we have come upon a few names such as 

 Critolaus, Charmadas, who can be safely designated as the 

 originators of certain phases of the argument. More arguments 

 are assigned to less definite sources. Academics, Stoics, Peri- 

 patetics, without any designation of persons. And still a larger 

 share while common to several of our authors are entirely 

 anonymous. The reason is as I have intimated before, that the 

 chief points in the controversy were developed very early, and 

 became commonplaces of literary discussion everywhere ; the 

 only room for originality was in varying the expression and 

 illustration of the arguments, and as we have seen in the case 

 of Phryne and Philo, these, too, soon became stereotyped. 



