is a woman who is beautiful useful in so far as she is beautiful? And the use of beauty is to be enjoyed?”’ “Yes.” When this was admitted, he would press the argument to the conclusion, namely, that he who uses anything for the purpose for which it is useful does no wrong. And by some such interrogatories he would carry his point. He appears to have been called Geés (god) in consequence of the following argument addressed to him by Stilpo. ‘‘ Are you, Theodorus, what you declare yourself to be?” To this he assented, and Stilpo continued, “ And do you Say you are god? ”’ To this he agreed. ‘‘ Then it follows that you are god.” Theodorus accepted this, and Stilpo said with a smile, “ But, you rascal, at this rate you would allow yourself to be a jackdaw and ten thousand other things.”’ . However, Theodorus, sitting on one occasion beside Euryclides, the hierophant, began, “Tell me, Euryclides, who they are who violate the mysteries ?”’ Kuryclides replied, ‘‘ Those who disclose them to the uninitiated.” “ Then you violate them,” said Theodorus, “ when you explain them to the uninitiated.” Yet he would hardly have escaped from being brought before the Areopagus if Demetrius of Phalerum had not rescued him. And Amphicrates in his book Upon Illustrious Men says he was condemned to drink the hemlock. For a while he stayed at the court of Ptolemy the son of Lagus, and was once sent by him as ambassador to Lysimachus. And on this occasion his language was so bold that Lysimachus said, “ Tell me, are you not the Theodorus who was banished