says Epicurus somewhere. This was how In- was taken up by Democritus, who saw how skilfully his bundles of wood were tied. He was the first to mark off the parts of discourse into four, namely, wish, question, answer, command b ; others divide into seven parts, narration, question, answer, command, rehearsal, wish, summoning ; these he called the basic forms of speech. Alcidamas made discourse fourfold, affirmation, negation, question, address. The first of his books he read in public was that On the Gods, the introduction to which we quoted above ; he read it at Athens in Euripides' house, or, as some say, in Megaclides' ; others again make the place the Lyceum and the reader his disciple Archagoras, Theodotus's son, who gave him the benefit of his voice. His accuser w r as Pythodorus, son of Polyzelus, one of the four hundred ; Aristotle, however, says it was Euathlus. The works of his which survive are these : * * The Art of Controversy. Of Wrestling. On Mathematics. Of the State. Of Ambition. Of Virtues. Of the Ancient Order of Things. On the Dwellers in Hades. Of the Misdeeds of Mankind. A Book of Precepts. Of Forensic Speech for a Fee, two books of opposing arguments. This is the list of his works. Moreover there is a dialogue which Plato wrote upon him.