_Against Lochites_ (Or. xx.), 394 B.C., is an action for assault; _Aegineticus_ (Or. xix.), 394 B.C., a claim to an inheritance; _Against Euthynus_ (Or. xxi.), 403 B.C., an action to recover a deposit; _Trapeziticus_ (Or. xvii.), 394 B.C., a similar action, against the famous banker Pasion; περὶ τοῦ ζεύγους (Or. xvi.), 397 B.C., spoken by the younger Alcibiades against a man Tisias, who asserts that the elder Alcibiades, father of the speaker, robbed him of a team of four horses. This is an action for damages amounting to five talents. _Against Callimachus_, 399 B.C., a παραγραφή or special plea entered by the defendant, who contends that an action for damages brought against him cannot be maintained. _Letters_ Reference has already been made to certain letters, to Dionysius, 368 B.C., Archidamus, 365 B.C., Philip and Alexander, 342 B.C. Others extant are addressed to the children of Jason (_Ep._ vi.), 359 B.C.—_i.e._ Thebe, and her half-brothers, children of the tyrant of Pherae, who was murdered in 370 B.C.; to Timotheus (_Ep._ vii.), 345 B.C.—a king of Heraclea on the Euxine; to the Rulers of Mitylene (_Ep._ viii.), 350 B.C.—the oligarchs who had recently overthrown the democracy; to Antipater (_Ep._ iv.), 340 B.C., at the time, apparently, regent of Macedonia during Philip’s absence in Thrace. This list of the correspondents of Isocrates, with some of whom at least he is on terms of familiarity, may serve to indicate his importance in the Greek world. Isocrates is also credited with the composition of a τέχνη or treatise on the art of rhetoric, now lost, except for a single quotation; and the editions of the text contain a number of apophthegms attributed to him. None are important. CHAPTER VII MINOR RHETORICIANS The contemporaries of Isocrates are overshadowed by his genius; nevertheless there were in his time other speakers and teachers of ability. The only one of them who deserves serious consideration is Alcidamas, a pupil of Gorgias or of his school, who, though a rival of Isocrates, had come under the influence of the latter’s style. We possess under his name a sophistical exercise, the _Accusation of Palamedes by Odysseus_, which is of no importance, and may be spurious, and a declamation _On the Sophists_, which is probably genuine; at least we may say that it is the work of an able critic and a graceful writer. His other works included two rhetorical exercises, the _Praise of Death_ and the _Praise of Nais_, and a _Messenian Oration_, which was apparently a counterblast to the _Archidamus_ of Isocrates.