which the Pythian priestess bore testimony when she gave Chaerephon the famous response : Of all men living Socrates most wise. For this he was most envied ; and especially because he would take to task those who thought highly of themselves, proving them to be fools, as to be sure he treated Anytus, according to Plato’s Meno.“ For Anytus could not endure to be ridiculed by Socrates, and so in the first place stirred up against him Aristophanes and his friends ; then afterwards he helped to persuade Meletus to indict him on a charge of impiety and corrupting the youth. The indictment was brought by Meletus, and the speech was delivered by Polyeuctus, according to Favorinus in his Miscellaneous Mistory. The speech was written by Polycrates the sophist, according to Hermippus ;_ but some say that it was by Anytus. Lycon the demagogue had made all the needful preparations.? Antisthenes in his Successions of Philosophers, and Plato in his Apology, say that there were three accusers, Anytus, Lycon and Meletus; that Anytus was. roused to anger on behalf of the craftsmen and politicians, Lycon on behalf of the rhetoricians, Meletus of the poets, all three of which classes had felt the lash of Socrates. Favorinus in the first book of his Memorabilia declares that the speech of Polycrates against Socrates is not authentic ; for he mentions the rebuilding of the walls by Conon, which