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 XVI CONTENTS. defects in an exaggerated form. — The encomiums usually pronounced upon the theoiy of jury-trial would apply yet more strongly to the Athe- nian dikasteries. — Imperfections of jury-trial — exaggerated in the pro- cedure of the dikasteries. — Powerful effects of the dikasteries in exer- cising and stimulating the intellect and feelings of individual citizens. — Necessity of learning to speak — growth of professional teachers of rhetoric — professional composers of speeches for others. — Ehetors and Sophists. — Polemics of Sokrates, himself a sophist, against the sophists generally. — Sophists and rhetors were the natural product of the age and of the democracy. — The dikasteries were composed, not exclusively of poor men, but of middling and poorer citizens indiscriminatelv. 352-407