dissimilars. If it were drawn from similars, it is with these and not with their analogies that their arguments should deal ; if from dissimilars, it is gratuitous to set them side by side. Hence Timon says of him, with a side hit at the other Socratics as well @: But I care not for these babblers, nor for anyone besides, not for Phaedo whoever he be, nor wrangling Euclides, who inspired the Megarians with a frenzied love of controve rsy. He wrote six dialogues, entitled Lamprias, Aeschines, Phoenix, Crito, Alcibiades, and a Discourse on Love. To the school of Euclides belongs Eubulides of Miletus, the author of many dialectical arguments in an interrogatory form, namely, The Liar, The Disguised, Electra, The Veiled Figure, The Sorites, The Horned One, and The Bald Head. Of him it is said by one of the Comic poets ® : Eubulides the Eristic, who propounded his quibbles about horns and confounded the orators with falsely pretenti ous arguments, is gone with all the braggadocio of a Demosthenes. Demosthenes was probably his pupil and thereby improved his faulty pronunciation of the letter R. Kubulides kept up a controversy with Aristotle and said much to discredit him, Among other members the school of Eubulides included Alexinus of Elis, a man very fond of controversy, for which reason he was called Elenxinus. In particular he kept up a controversy with Zeno. Hermippus says of him that he left Elis and removed to Olympia, where he studied philosophy. His pupils inquired why he took up his abode here, and were