[66] Plat. Protag. 72, p. 339 a.
[67] Ibid. 22, p. 317 b: ὁμολογῶ τε σοφιστὴς εἶναι καὶ παιδεύειν ἀνθρώπους. For detailed information as to the relation between the early sophists and Homer, reference may be made to a dissertation by W. O. Friedel, de sophistarum studiis Homericis, printed in the Dissertationes philologicæ Halenses, Halis, 1873.
[68] Cf. H. Schrader, über die porphyrianischen Ilias Scholien, Hamburg, 1872.
[69] Strab, 1. 2. 8.
[70] Id. 1. 2. 3.
[71] Dio Chrys. Orat. 2, vol. i. pp. 19, 20.
[72] Dio Chrys. Orat. 1, vol. i. p. 3.
[73] Plat. Theæt. 9, p. 152 d, quoting Hom. Il. 14. 201-302. In later times, the same verse was quoted as having suggested and supported the theory of Thales, Irenæus, 2.14; Theodoret, Græc. Affect. Cur. 2. 9.
[74] Celsus in Origen, c. Cels. 6. 42, referring to Hom. Il. 15. 18 sqq.
[75] Cic. N. D. 1. 15: “ut etiam veterrimi pœtæ, qui hæc ne quidem suspicati sint, Stoici fuisse videantur.”