[252] Plato, Laws, 802, 811.

[253] Isokrates (Paneg. 74 A). He says the object was to make the boys hate the barbarians; as, e.g., English boys might learn Henry V. in order to dislike the French!

[254] Xen. Banquet, iii. 5.

[255] Ibid.

[256] Ibid. iv. 6.

[257] Aristoph. Frogs, 1035.

[258] From the Banqueters.

[259] Straton (in Athen. 382, 383).

[260] Aristoph. Frogs, 1032.

[261] Athen. 164.