[161] Plato, Epistol. iii. p. 317 B. C.
[162] Plato, Epist. vii. p. 338-346; Plutarch, Dion, c. 19. Æschines, the companion of Sokrates along with Plato, is said to have passed a long time at Syracuse with Dionysius, until the expulsion of that despot (Diogen. Laert. ii. 63).
[163] Plutarch, De Fortunâ Alex. Magn. p. 338 B. Δωρίδος ἐκ μητρὸς Φοίβου κοινώμασι βλαστών.
[164] See a passage in Plato, Epistol. ii. p. 314 E.
[165] Plato, Epistol. iii. p. 318 A.; vii. p. 346, 347. Plutarch, Dion, c. 15, 16.
[166] Plutarch, Timoleon, c. 15—on the authority of Aristoxenus.
[167] Plato, Epistol. vii. p. 350 A. B.
[168] Plato, Epistol. vii. p. 350 C. The return of Plato and his first meeting with Dion is said to have excited considerable sensation among the spectators at the festival (Diogenes Laert. iii. 25).
The Olympic festival here alluded to, must be (I conceive) that of 366 B. C.: the same also in Epistol. ii. p. 310 D.
[169] Plutarch, Dion, c. 21; Cornel. Nepos, Dion, c. 4.