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There
are, however, certain books attributed to Hermagoras which support this erroneous opinion, though
whether the attribution is spurious or whether they
were written by another Hermagoras is an open
question. For they cannot possibly be by the
famous Hermagoras, who wrote so much that was
admirable on the art of rhetoric, since, as is clear
from the first book of the Rhetorica of Cicero,1 he
divided the material of rhetoric into theses and causes.
Cicero objects to this division, contends that theses
have nothing to do with an orator, and refers all
this class of questions to the philosophers.
1 de Inv. i. 6.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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