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To this Gorgias
makes no reply, but the argument is taken up by
Polus, a hot-headed and headstrong young fellow,
and it is to him that Socrates makes his remarks
about “shadows” and “forms of flattery.” Then
Callicles,1 who is even more hot-headed, intervenes,
but is reduced to the conclusion that “he who would
truly be a rhetorician ought to be just and possess a
knowledge of justice.” It is clear therefore that
Plato does not regard rhetoric as an evil, but holds
that true rhetoric is impossible for any save a just
and good man. In the Phaedrus2
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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