Isocrates still speaks. 'Twere shame should I Sit silent.Both Aristotle and Isocrates left text-books on rhetoric, but that by Aristotle is the larger and contains more books. Theodectes, whose work I mentioned above,
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From this point the roads begin to
part. The pupils of Isocrates were eminent in every
branch of study, and when he was already advanced
in years (and he lived to the age of ninety-eight),
Aristotle began to teach the art of rhetoric in his
afternoon lectures,1 in which he frequently quoted
the wel-known line from the Philoctetes2 in the form
1 Aristotle gave his esoteric lectures in the morning, reserving the afternoon for those of more general interest: see Aul. Gell. xx. v.
2 Probably the Philoctetes of Euripides. The original line was αἰσχρὸν σιωπᾶν, βαρβάρους δ᾽ ἐᾶν λέγειν, which Aristotle travestied by substituting Ἰσοκράτην for βαρβάρους.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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