[262] Aristoph. Birds, 471; Wasps, 1446. 1401.

[263] Plato, Hipp. Maj. 286 B.

[264] Xen. Banquet, iv. 27. School friendships are also mentioned in Aristot. Eth. viii. 12; Aristoph. Clouds, 1006.

[265] Athen. 242 d.

[266] The translation is free, and I omit a good deal that is less relevant.

[267] For a picture of such a flogging see p. 599 of Bury’s Roman Empire.

[268] Plato, Laws, 809 C.

[269] The distinction between λογιστική, reckoning up and comparing numbers, chiefly in bills and the like, practical arithmetic, and ἀριθμητική, theory of numbers, is noted in Plato, Gorg. 451 B.

[270] Plato, Laws, 643 B.C.

[271] Plato, Protag. 318 D.