[45]. Diog. L. ix. 55: δίκη ὑπὲρ μισθοῦ. Cf. Diels, op. cit., II, 220, 231; Croiset, Hist. de la Litt. Gr., IV, 54. Souchon (op. cit., p. 23, n. 1) thinks that it may have taught the dignity of all labor. Cf. also Plato (Sophist 232 D): τὰ πρωταγόρεια ... περί τε πάλης καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τεχνῶν. Gomperz (Die Apologie der Heilkunst, p. 33) infers that Protagoras had published a Gesammtapologie der Künste. Cf. Pol. 299C, and Diog. L. ix. 8. 55.
[46]. Cf. Plato Protag. 328B, where Protagoras states his rule as to charges for his lectures. Cf. Zeller, op. cit., I, 2, 1080 ff., on the earnings of the Sophists. Cf. Plato Euthyd. 304C: ὅτι οὐδὲ τοῦ χρηματίζεσθαί φατον διακωλύειν οὐδέν.
[47]. Plato Charm. 163 B-D on Hesiod.
[48]. Xen. Mem. ii. 1. 21-34, the story of Heracles (28).
[49]. Pseudo-Platon. Eryxias 397 D-E, discussed infra.
[50]. Hippias Minor 368 D, where he is presented as the jack of all trades. Cf. infra for the antithetic attitude of Plato.
[51]. Orestes 917-22; Supplices 399-456, 238-45; Phoenissae 535-51 (Dindorf), cited by Dümmler, Proleg. zu Platons Staat (1891), to show that there are traces of a political treatise of the school of Antiphon in Euripides. Cf. Barker, op. cit., p. 25 and note.
[52]. Orestes 917 ff.; cf. also the noble character of the peasant (αὐτουργός) in the Electra, who is a noble soul (252 f.), and who speaks the prologue, though he is only a secondary person in the play. Cf. also 367-82.
[53]. Fr. 345 (Nauck), the unjust man is ignoble (δυσγενής), though better born than Zeus; frs. 54 (Alex.), 514 (Melanippe), 8 (Electra); cf. n. 1 above, and infra. He puts worthy sentiments into the mouths of slaves and dresses his nobles in rags.
[54]. Ion 854; ἐν γάρ τι τοῦς δούλοισιν αἰσχύνην φέρει || τὀύνομα; frs. 828 (Phrixus), 515 (Melanippe) (Nauck); Helena 730; cf. Decharme, Euripide et l’esprit de son théâtre, pp. 162 ff.