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or with reference to another passage the
shadow of a small part of politics1 and the fourth department of flattery. For Plato assigns2 two departments of politics to the body, namely medicine and
gymnastic, and two to the soul, namely law and
justice, while he styles the art of cookery3 a form of
flattery of medicine, the art of the slave-dealer a
flattery of gymnastic, for they produce a false complexion by the use of paint and a false robustness
by puffing them out with fat: sophistry he calls a
dishonest counterfeit of legal science, and rhetoric of
justice.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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