made flattery their method. Perhaps “flattery” is not quite the meaning. We can use this English term of remarks that, though insincere, are directed to the pleasure of the person being flattered. The Greek term has rather the idea of using fair words as a means of gaining one’s own ends. It is a matter of using insincerity as an instrument of policy, as a means of persuading another to do one’s will. The second charge refuted also contains the idea of insincerity. The term “mask” denotes a specious