[22] Grote gives good reasons for disbelieving this.
[23] The Greek is, ἐν τῷ πρὸς Ξενοφῶντα ἀποστασίου—“ἀποστασίου δίκη, an action against a freedman for having forsaken or slighted his προστάτης.”—L. & S.
[24] This is exactly the character that Horace gives of him:—
Omnis Aristippum decuit color et status et res;
Tentantem majora, fere præsentibus æequum.—
Ep. i. 23, 24.
[25] Plutarch, in his life of Pompey, attributes these lines to Sophocles, but does not mention the play in which they occurred.
[26] The French translator gives the following examples, to show what is meant by these several kinds of quibbling arguments:—
The lying one is this:—Is the man a liar who says that he tells lies. If he is, then he does not tell lies; and if he does not tell lies, is he a liar?
The concealed one:—Do you know this man who is concealed? If you do not, you do not know your own father; for he it is who is concealed.