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1 Epictetus in an amusing manner touches on the practice of Sophists, Rhetoricians, and others, who made addresses only to get praise. This practice of reciting prose or verse compositions was common in the time of Epictetus, as we may learn from the letters of the younger Pliny, Juvenal, Martial, and the author of the treatise de Causis corruptae eloqwuntiae. Upton.
2 Such were the subjects which the literary men of the day de. lighted in.
3 Dion of Prusa in Bithynia was named Chrysostomus (golden- mouthed) because of his eloquence. He was a rhetorician and sophist, as the term was then understood, and was living at the same time as Epictetus. Eighty of his orations written in Greek are still extant, and some fragments of fifteen.
4 These words are the beginning of Xenophon's Memorabilia, i. 1. The small critics disputed whether the text should be τίσι λόγοις, or τίνι λόγῳ.
5 From the Crito of Plato, c. 6.
6 The rich, says Upton, used to lend their houses for recitations, as
we learn from Pliny, Ep. viii. 12 and Juvenal, vii. 40.
Si dulcedine famae
Succensus recites, maculosas commodat aedes.
7 κατηγορία is one of Aristotle's common terms.
8 From Plato's Apology of Socrates.
9 Aulus Gellius v. 1. Seneca, Ep. 52. Upton.
10 Cicero, de Officiis i. 18: “'Quae magno animo et fortiter excellenterque gesta sunt, ea nescio quomodo pleniore ore laudamus. Hino Rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, Thermopylis, Leuctria.'”
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