Mr. Cope, in his Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric (p. 39, seq.), gives a just representation of the probable relations between Aristotle and Isokrates; though I do not concur in the unfavourable opinion which he expresses about "the malignant influence exercised by Isokrates upon education in general" (p. 40). Mr. Cope at the same time remarks, that "Aristotle in the Rhetorica draws a greater number of illustrations of excellences of style from Isokrates than from any other author" (p. 41); and he adds, very truly, that the absence of any evidence of ill feeling towards Isokrates in Aristotle's later work, and the existence of such ill feeling as an actual fact at an earlier period, are perfectly reconcileable in themselves (p. 42). That the Rhetorica of Aristotle which we now possess is a work of his later age, certainly published, perhaps composed, during his second residence at Athens, I hold with Mr. Cope and other antecedent critics.] [Footnote 63: Athenæus, ii. 60, iii. 122; Euseb. Pr. E. xiv. 6; Dionys. H. de Isocrate Judic. p. 577: [Greek: i(kano\n ê(gêsa/menos ei)=nai tê=s a)lêthei/as bebaiôtê\n to\n A)thênai=on Kêphiso/dôron, o(\s kai\ sunebi/ôsen I)sokra/tei, kai\ gnêsiô/tatos a)koustê\s e)ge/neto, kai\ tê\n a)pologi/an tê\n pa/nu thaumastê\n e)n tai=s pro\s A)ristote/lê a)ntigraphai=s e)poiê/sato], &C. Kephisodôrus, in this defence, contended that you might pick out, even from the very best poets and sophists, [Greek: e(\n ê)\ du/o ponêrô=s ei)rême/na]. This implies that Aristotle, in attacking Isokrates, had cited various extracts which he denounced as exceptionable.]