Euripides: patched up by Socrates.
And Callias, in his Captives, says:—
A. Are you so proud, giving yourself such airs?
B. And well I may, for Socrates is the cause.
And Aristophanes says, in his Clouds:—
This is Euripides, who doth compose
Those argumentative wise tragedies.
III. But, having been a pupil of Anaxagoras, as some people say, but of Damon as the other story goes, related by Alexander in his Successions, after the condemnation of Anaxagoras, he became a disciple of Archelaus, the natural philosopher. And, indeed, Aristoxenus says that he was very intimate with him.
IV. But Duris says that he was a slave, and employed in carving stones. And some say that the Graces in the Acropolis are his work; and they are clothed figures. And that it is in reference to this that Timon says, in his Silli:—
From them proceeded the stone polisher,