[136] Plato, Lusis, 206 D.
[137] Plato, Laches, 179 A.
[138] Xen. Constit. of Lak. iii.
[139] Plato, Lusis, 214 B.
[140] Rhetoric is, of course, banished from a Platonic state.
[141] [Plato] Axiochos, 366 E.
[142] See Petit, Leges Atticae, ii. 4, compiled with great ingenuity out of many authors. Hence the proverbs ὁ μήτε νεῖν μήτε γράμματα ἐπιστάμενος, of utter dunce, and πρῶτον κολυμβᾶν δεύτερον δὲ γράμματα. The spelling-riddles of the tragedians imply a whole nation interested in spelling.
[143] Plato, Kriton, 50 D.
[144] Aristophanes, Knights, 189.
[145] Ibid. 1235-1239.