Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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ἄρτι ἀναφυόμενοι, κ.τ.λ. The sophists who have ‘lately sprung up’, and ‘recently embraced their pretentious callings’, are both the two preceding classes — (1) the Eristics, (2) the professors of πολιτικοὶ λόγοι. These, he says, will at last be converted to his principles (ταύτην τὴν ὑπόθεσιν). He now comes to the third class.

τέχνας Artes, treatises on Rhetoric. The writers primarily meant are doubtless Corax of Syracuse (circ. 466 B.C.), and his pupil Tisias, on whom see Attic Orators, I. cxxi f.: perh. also Antiphon. Gorgias, Thrasymachus of Chalcedon, and Pôlos had also written τέχναι, but were probably less liable to the charge brought here — that of dealing exclusively with Forensic Rhetoric.

δικάζεσθαι ‘to conduct law-suits’, to frame κατηγορίαι or ἀπολογίαι. This was strictly true of Corax, whose express object was to help Sicilian litigants (Attic Orators, I. cxviii), and also perhaps of Tisias. Aristotle makes the very same criticism on the writers of τέχναι generally who had preceded him, Rhet. I. 1 § 10, περὶ μὲν ἐκείνης τῆς δημηγορικῆς πραγματείας (the Rhetoric which trains for political debate), οὐδὲν λέγουσι, περὶ δὲ τοῦ δικάζεσθαι πάντες πειρῶνται τεχνολογεῖν.