Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 30.4.3

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[3] This trade of forensic oratory the great Plato defined as πολιτικῆς μορίου εἴδωλον (that is, the shadow of a small part of the science of government¹ ) or as the fourth part of flattery;² but Epicurus counts it among evil arts, calling it κακοτεχνία.³ Tisias⁴ says that it is the artist of persuasion, and Gorgias of Leontini agrees with him.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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[3] Hanc professionem oratorum forensium, πολιτικῆς μορίου εἴδωλον (id est civilitatis particulae umbram) vel adulationis partem quartam esse definit amplitudo amplitude Platonis, Epicurus autem κακοτεχνίαν nominans¹ inter artes numerat malas. Tisias suasionis opificem esse memorat assentiente Leontino Gorgia.

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1. Plato, Gorgias, 463 b. For amplitudo Platonis, cf. xxii. 16, 22,

sermonum amplitudine lovis aemulus Platon.

2. I.e., the lowest of the four parts.

3. The art of deceiving; cf. Quintilian, ii. 15, 2; 20, 2. Epicurus denied that it was an art.

4. One of the earliest rhetoricians, a teacher of Gorgias; see Cic., Brut. 12, 46.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 30.4.3

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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