[46] Theodota, Xen. ‘Mem.,’ iii. 11.
[47] Some have affirmed Diotima to be a fiction of Plato (Mähly, ‘Die Frauen des Griechischen Alterthums,’ p. 14), but this supposition has been amply refuted: Stallbaum on the ‘Symposium,’ p. 201 D. Otto Jahn collects all the references to Diotima by ancient writers in his edition of the ‘Symposium.’
[48] Timandra, Plut. ‘Alcib.’ c. 39.
[49] Pericles, 24.
[50] See Book iv. c. 2 s. 2.
[51] ‘Symp.,’ xvi. p. 193 C.
[52] Chronological difficulties have been suggested in the way of this statement being true (see especially a beautiful monograph on Aspasia, ‘Aspasie de Milet,’ par L. Becq de Fouquières, p. 342), but I do not think that the difficulties are insuperable. Müller-Strübing (Aristophanes, p. 585) has found an allusion to this connexion with Lysicles in Aristophanes with greater ingenuity than success.
[53] See especially Miss Cornwallis’s able defence of Aspasia: Letters, p. 181.
[54] Ovid, ‘Ep. ad Phaon.’ 33; Max. Tyr. Diss. 24, 7.
[55] ‘Jahrgang,’ xxxv. 1877, p. 56.