[495] Plato’s own schoolmaster, Diog. Laertius iii. 5.
[496] [Plato] Lovers, 132.
[497] Reputed inventor of Euclid i. 12 and 23, and a great astronomer.
[498] Thus the lad Theages, who has learnt letters, lyre-playing, and wrestling, is vaguely in search of a Sophist, to make him “wise” ([Plato] Theages, 121 D, 122 E).
[499] Plato, Theait. 147 D.
[500] Aristoph. Birds, 1005.
[501] Plato, Hipp. Maj. 303 B.
[502] Stob. 98, p. 535.
[503] And learning to ride. He is thinking of the aristocratic lad, who would afterwards enter the later exclusive ephebic college.
[504] Among the common amusements of Athenian dinner-parties was a geographical game, in which A gave, say, the name of a city in Asia beginning with K, and B had to reply with one in Europe beginning with the same letter (Athen. 457).