especially to Xausiphanes, and here are his own words : " Nay, let them go hang ; for, when labouring with an idea, he too had the sophist's off-hand boastfulness like many another servile soul " ; besides, he himself in his letters says of Nausiphanes : " This so maddened him that he abused me and called me pedagogue." Epicurus used to call this Xausiphanes jelly-fish, an illiterate, a fraud, and a trollop ; Plato's school he called " the toadies of Dionysius," their master himself the " golden " Plato, 6 and Aristotle a profligate, who after devouring his patrimony took to soldiering and selling drugs ; Protagoras a packcarrier and the scribe of Democritus and village schoolmaster ; Heraclitus a muddler c ; Democritus Lerocritus (the nonsense -monger) ; and Antidorus Sannidorus (fawning gift-bearer) ; the Cynics foes of Greece ; the Dialecticians despoilers ; and Pyrrho an ignorant boor. But these people are stark mad. For our philosopher has abundance of witnesses to attest his unsurpassed goodwill to all men — his native land, which honoured him with statues in bronze ; his friends, so many in number that they could hardly be counted by whole cities, and indeed all who knew him, held fast as they were by the siren-charms of his doctrine, save Metrodorus d of Stratonicea, who