Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators

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καὶ ταῦτα referring to ὑπέσχοντο, κ.τ.λ.: ‘and this, when the accomplishment, in so far as it can be taught, is available for all other branches of oratory just as much as for the forensic’. — τοῦ πράγματος: cp. § 12, ποιητικοῦ πράγματος, and note. He prefers this vague term, because it suits his doctrine that Rhetoric is not a mere τεταγμένη τέχνη, but largely a matter of natural aptitude. — οὐδὲν μᾶλλον, κ.τ.λ.: i.e. Rhetoric is συμβουλευτική and ἐπιδεικτική as well as δικανική.

τῶν περὶ τὰς ἔρ. καλινδ.] ‘those who dabble in frivolous disputations’: cp. § 1, note on τῶν περὶ τὰς ἔριδας. — καλινδεῖσθαι, like versari, but with a contemptuous sense, implying busy idleness (‘to potter about’), cp. Isocr. Philipp. § 81 (p. 136), τοῖς ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος καλινδουμένοις, ‘the busy triflers of the platform’.

ἐμμείνειεν ‘abide by’, i.e. put into practice: — ‘(quibbling arguments, λογίδια), on which a man could not act in real life without instant and utter disaster’. — περὶ αὐτῶν, sc. τῶν λογιδίων: ‘still they are wont to urge these in the name of virtue and of temperance’. — ἐπηγγ., ‘profess’: cp. ἐπαγγελμάτων, § 1.

ἐπὶ τοὺς πολιτ. λόγους] πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, in the proper sense, were such as belonged to practical civic life, i.e. either deliberative, συμβουλευτικοί, or forensic, δικανικοί. These teachers, Isocr. says, neglect the real benefits which their study can confer (τὰ προσόντα αὐτοῖς ἀγαθά, that is, in the higher or deliberative branch), and undertake to be ‘teachers of meddlesomeness and greed’ (i.e. of the forensic branch, — the art of litigation).