XXII. But though he was of such a grave character himself, he was nevertheless ridiculed by the comic poets. Accordingly, Theopompus, in his Pleasure-seeker, says:—
For one thing is no longer only one,
But two things now are scarcely one; as says
The solemn Plato.
And Anaxandrides in his Theseus, says:—
When he ate olives like our worthy Plato.
And Timon speaks of him in this way, punning on his name:—
As Plato placed strange platitudes on paper.[32]
Alexis says in his Meropis:—