[70] This phase of Greek life is well illustrated by the addresses of Theognis to Cyrnus.
[71] Eristicism had also points of contact with the philosophies of Parmenides and Socrates which will be indicated in a future chapter.
[72] Ph. d. Gr., I., 903 (3rd ed.).
[73] See Plato’s Meno, sub. in.
[74] Lord Beaconsfield recently [written in February 1880] spoke of the Balkans as forming an ‘intelligible’ frontier for Turkey. Continental telegrams substituted ‘natural frontier.’ The change was characteristic and significant.
[75] Aristoph., Pax, 697.
[76] ‘As Mr. Grote remarks, there is no reason to suspect any greater moral corruption in the age of Demosthenes than in the age of Pericles.’ (The Dialogues of Plato, vol. IV., p. 380.) We do not remember that Grote commits himself to such a sweeping statement, nor was it necessary for his purpose to do so. No one would have been more surprised than Demosthenes himself to hear that the Athenians of his generation equalled the contemporaries of Pericles in public virtue. (Cf. Grote’s Plato, II., 148.)
[77] Geschichte der Entwickelung der Griechischen Philosophie, I., p. 204.
[78] Philosophie d. Gr., I., p. 943 (3rd ed.).
[79] The invention of memoir-writing is claimed by Prof. Mahaffy (Hist. Gr. Lit., II., 42) for Ion of Chios and his contemporary Stesimbrotus. But—apart from their questionable authenticity—the sketches attributed to these two writers do not seem to have aimed at presenting a complete picture of a single individual, which is what was attempted with considerable success in Xenophon’s Memorabilia.