[Footnote 62: Cicero, De Oratore, iii. 35, 141. "Itaque ipse Aristoteles quum florere Isocratem nobilitate discipulorum videret, quod ipse suas disputationes a causis forensibus et civilibus ad inanem sermonis elegantiam transtulisset, mutavit repente totam formam prope disciplinæ suæ, versumque quendam Philoctetæ paulo secus dixit. Ille enim 'turpe sibi ait esse tacere, quum barbaros'--hic autem, 'quum Isocratem'--'pateretur dicere'" See **Quintilian, Inst. Or. iv. 2, 196; and Cicero, Orator. 19, 62: "Aristoteles Isocratem ipsum lacessivit." Also, ib. 51, 172: "Omitto Isocratem discipulosque ejus Ephorum et Naucratem; quanquam orationis faciendæ et ornandæ auctores locupletissimi summi ipsi oratores esse debebant. Sed quis omnium doctior, quis acutior, quis in rebus vel inveniendis vel judicandis acrior Aristotele fuit? _Quis porro Isocrati adversatus est infensius?_" That Aristotle was the first to assail Isokrates, and that Kephisodôrus wrote only in reply, is expressly stated by Numenius, ap. Euseb. Pr. Ev. xiv. 6: [Greek: o( Kêphiso/dôros, e)peidê\ u(p' A)ristote/lous ballo/menon e(autô=| to\n dida/skalon I)sokra/tên e(ô/ra], &c. Quintilian also says, Inst. Or. iii. 1, p. 126: "Nam et Isocratis præstantissimi discipuli fuerunt in omni studiorum genere; eoque jam seniore (octavum enim et nonagesimum implevit annum) pomeridianis scholis Aristoteles præcipere artem oratoriam coepit; noto quidem illo (ut traditur) versu ex Philoctetâ _frequenter usus_: [Greek: Ai)schro\n siôpa=|n me/n, kai\ I)sokra/tên e)a=|n le/gein]." Diogenes La. (v. 3) maintains that Aristotle turned the parody not against _Isokrates_, but against _Xenokrates_: [Greek: Ai)schro\n siôpa=|n, Xenokra/tên d' e)a=|n le/gein]. But the authority of Cicero and Quintilian is decidedly preferable. When we recollect that the parody was employed by a young man, as yet little known, against a teacher advanced in age, and greatly frequented as well as admired by pupils, it will appear sufficiently offensive. Moreover, it does not seem at all pertinent; for the defects of Isokrates, however great they may have been, were not those of analogy with [Greek: ba/rbaroi], but the direct reverse. Dionysius must have been forcibly struck with the bitter _animus_ displayed by Aristotle against Isokrates, when he makes it a reason for rejecting the explicit averment of Aristotle as to a matter of fact: [Greek: kai\ ou)/t' A)ristote/lei pei/thomai _r(upai/nein to\n a)/ndra boulome/nô|_] (De Isocr. Jud. p. 577).