And so, as Plato says, I do not know;
But I suspect.
Alexis, in his Olympiodorus speaks thus:—
My mortal body became dry and withered:
But my immortal part rose to the sky.
Is not this Plato’s doctrine?
And in his Parasite he says:—
Or to converse alone, like Plato.
Anaxilas also laughs at him in his Botrylion, and Circe, and his Rich Women.
XXIII. And Aristippus, in the fourth book of his treatise upon Ancient Luxury, says that he was much attached to a youth of the name of Aster, who used to study astronomy with him; and also to Dion, whom we have already mentioned. And some say that he was also attached to Phædrus, and that the following epigrams which he wrote upon them are evidences of the love he felt for them:—