a. And as for the good, whatever that be, that you are likely to get on her account, I know no more about it, master, than I do of the good of Plato. B. Just attend. And in the Deaxidemides ® : O Plato, all you know is how to frown with eyebrows lifted high like any snail. Cratinus,® too, in The False Changeling : A. Clearly you are a man and have a soul. B. In Plato’s words, I am not sure but suspect that I have. And Alexis in the Olympiodorus ¢ : A. My mortal body withered up, my immortal part sped into the air. B. Is not this a lecture of Plato’s ? And in the Parasite 4 Or, with Plato, to converse alone. Anaxilas,¢ again, in the Botrylion, and in Circe and Rich Women, has a gibe at him. Aristippus in his fourth book On the Luxury of the Ancients says that he was attached to a youth named Aster, who joined him in the study of astronomy, as also to Dion who has been mentioned above, and, as some aver, to Phaedrus too. His passionate affection is revealed in the following epigrams which he is said to have written upon them /: Star-gazing Aster, would I were the skies, To gaze upon thee with a thousand eyes.