From these diverged the sculptor, a prater about laws, the enchanter of Greece, inventor of subtle arguments, the sneerer who mocked at fine speeches, half-Attic in his mock humility. He was formidable in public speaking, according to Idomeneus ; moreover, as Xenophon tells us, the Thirty forbade him to teach the art of words. And Aristophanes attacks him in his plays for making the worse appear the better reason. For Favorinus in his Miscellaneous History says Socrates and his pupil Aeschines were the first to teach rhetoric ; and this is confirmed by Idomeneus in his work on the Socratic circle.¢ Again, he was the first who discoursed on the conduct of life, and the first philosopher who was tried and put to death. Aristoxenus, the son of Spintharus, says of him that he made munc y ; he would at all events invest sums, collect the interest accruing, and then, when this was expended, put out the principal again. Demetrius of Byzantium relates that Crito removed him from his workshop and educated him, being struck by his beauty of soul; that he discussed moral questions in the workshops and the market-place, being convinced that the study of nature is no concern of ours; and that he claimed that his inquiries embraced Whatso’er is good or evil in an house? ; that frequently, owing to his vehemence in argument, men set upon him with their fists or tore his hair out ; and that for the most part he was despised and laughed at, yet bore all this ill-usage patiently. So much so that, when he had been kicked, and much earlier author, for he was a disciple of Epicurus, whom he knew from 310 to 270 B.c. ’ Hom. Od. iv. 392.