keep the argument though I am leaving you ; for the argument will remain, but the fish will soon be sold.” Nine dialogues of his are extant written in frigid style, Moschus, Aristippus or Callias, Ptolemy, Chaerecrates, Metrocles, Anaximenes, Epigenes, To his Daughter, Aristotle. Heraclides relates that Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school, was one of Stilpo’s pupils ¢ ; Hermippus that Stilpo died at a great age after taking wine to hasten his end. I have written an epitaph on him also ® : Surely you know Stilpo the Megarian; old age and then disease laid him low, a formidable pair. But he found in wine a charioteer too strong for that evil team; he quaffed it eagerly and was borne along. He was also ridiculed by Sophilus the Comic poet in his drama The Wedding ¢ : What Charinus says is just Stilpo’s stoppers. CuapTer 12. CRITO Crito was a citizen of Athens. He was most affectionate in his disposition towards Socrates, and took such care of him that none of his wants were left unsupplied. Further, his sons Critobulus, Hermogenes, Epigenes and Ctesippus were pupils of Socrates. Crito too wrote seventeen dialogues which are extant in a single volume under the titles : That men are not made good by instruction. Concerning superfluity.