[498] Thus the lad Theages, who has learnt letters, lyre-playing, and wrestling, is vaguely in search of a Sophist, to make him “wise” ([Plato] _Theages_, 121 D, 122 E). [499] Plato, _Theait._ 147 D. [500] Aristoph. _Birds_, 1005. [501] Plato, _Hipp. Maj._ 303 B. [502] Stob. 98, p. 535. [503] And learning to ride. He is thinking of the aristocratic lad, who would afterwards enter the later exclusive ephebic college. [504] Among the common amusements of Athenian dinner-parties was a geographical game, in which A gave, say, the name of a city in Asia beginning with K, and B had to reply with one in Europe beginning with the same letter (Athen. 457). [505] Pind. _Isthm._ 5 (4) 36. σοφισταί [sophistai]; σοφός [sophos], Pind. _Ol._ i. 15; _Pyth._ i. 42. σοφία [sophia], _Hymn to Hermes_, and Pind. _Ol._ i. 187. [506] Hom. _Il._ 15. 412. [507] Pind. _Pyth._ 3. 96. [508] _Ibid._ 5. 154. [509] In Isokrates, _Antid._ 235. [510] As in Theog. 1074. [511] He was an invalid. [512] Plato, _Protag._ 328 C. [513] Plato, _Krat._ 384 E. [514] [Plato] _Axioch._ 366 C. [515] Plato, _Apol._ iv. 20 B. [516] Isok. _Antid._ 156. [517] Diog. Laert. iii. 25. [518] Aristot. _Rhet._ iii. 3. 5. [519] Plato, _Euthud._ 277 E. [520] Plato, _Protag._ 341 A. [521] _Ibid._ 337 A-C. [522] Plato, _Hipp. Min._ 368. [523] Plato, _Hipp. Maj._ and _Protag._ 318. [524] Quoted in the Teubner Antiphon from Stobaeus. _Flor._ 98. 533. _Flor._ Appendix, 16. 36. This Antiphon comes in Xen. _Mem._ i. 6. 1. [525] Plato, _Euthud._ 298 D. [526] It is not fair to condemn Polos and Thrasumachos on the score of the opinions which Plato puts into their mouths. [527] Jebb, _Attic Orators_. [528] Compare Renaissance poetry in Italy. CHAPTER VI SECONDARY EDUCATION: II. THE PERMANENT SCHOOLS Athens was the place in which the fluid educational system of the Sophists would naturally begin to crystallise. Not only were the Athenians the keenest and most intellectual of the Hellenes: owing to the vast trade of their city, merchants, astronomers, inventors, poets, thinkers of all sorts, poured into it, and men of all trades and all tongues collected there. Many stayed there for a few days only, in passing; for Athens was a sort of Clapham Junction in those days. All these brought a perpetual supply of new ideas into the city, which the inhabitants were quick to assimilate.