[97] Herodotus, vi. 7, 11-12.
[98] See Herod. 9, 15; Thucyd. 2, 2; 4, 91; 5, 37; Xenophon Hellen. 3, 4, 4, Boeckh, C. I. G. vol. i. p. 726.
[99] Herod. 7, 145-169.
[100] Id. 7, 172-174.
[101] Herod. 9, 88; Polyb. 9, [39]. Equally abortive proved another attempt at combination in B.C. 377, when the ξύνεδροι from the islands met for a time at Athens. Grote, vol. ix. p. 319.
[102] Herod. 6, 49.
[103] Polybius (12, [26] c.) says that in his time the schools were generally in disrepute. But is not this generally the verdict of “practical” men on universities? The excitement at Rome at the visit of the philosophers (B.C. 155) seems to show that they still enjoyed a world-wide reputation.
[104] Herod. 8, 73.
[105] Thucy. 1, 103.
[106] Id. 3, 94-98.