the Greeks were turned towards him, and there he met Dion, who was about to make his expedition against Dionysius. In the first book of the Memorabita of Favorinus there is a statement that Mithradates the Persian set up a statue of Plato in the Academy and inscribed upon it these words : ““ Mithradates the Persian, the son of Orontobates, dedicated to the Muses a likeness of Plato made by Silanion.”’ Heraclides declares that in his youth he was so modest and orderly that he was never seen to laugh outright. In spite of this he too was ridiculed by the Comic poets. At any rate Theopompus in his Hedychares says ¢: There is not anything that is truly one, even the number two is scarcely one, according to Plato. Moreover, Anaxandrides ® in his Theseus Says: He was eating olives exactly like Plato. Then there is Timon who puns on his name thus :¢ As Plato placed strange platitudes. Alexis again in the Meropis ¢: You have come in the nick of time. For I am at my wits’ end and walking up and down, like Plato, and yet have discovered no wise plan but only tired my legs. And in the Ancylion ® : You don’t know what you are talking about; run about with Plato, and you’ll know all about soap and onions. Amphis,f too, in the Amphicrates says :