[47] Some have affirmed Diotima to be a fiction of Plato (Mähly, ‘Die Frauen des Griechischen Alterthums,’ p. 14), but this supposition has been amply refuted: Stallbaum on the ‘Symposium,’ p. 201 D. Otto Jahn collects all the references to Diotima by ancient writers in his edition of the ‘Symposium.’ [48] Timandra, Plut. ‘Alcib.’ c. 39. [49] Pericles, 24. [50] See Book iv. c. 2 s. 2. [51] ‘Symp.,’ xvi. p. 193 C. [52] Chronological difficulties have been suggested in the way of this statement being true (see especially a beautiful monograph on Aspasia, ‘Aspasie de Milet,’ par L. Becq de Fouquières, p. 342), but I do not think that the difficulties are insuperable. Müller-Strübing (Aristophanes, p. 585) has found an allusion to this connexion with Lysicles in Aristophanes with greater ingenuity than success. [53] See especially Miss Cornwallis’s able defence of Aspasia: Letters, p. 181. [54] Ovid, ‘Ep. ad Phaon.’ 33; Max. Tyr. Diss. 24, 7. [55] ‘Jahrgang,’ xxxv. 1877, p. 56. [56] P. 920. [57] Opuscula ‘Lysias,’ c. 33, ed. Usener and Radermacher. [58] See Book 4 c. 2 sec. 4. [59] p. 291. [60] ‘Drerup,’ p. 223, especially 247. [61] Some have doubted the existence of this grandson Sophocles, because an inscription was found in 1849, “Sophocles the son of Iophon” (Rangabe, ‘Antiq. Hell.,’ ii. p. 997); but there is nothing to prevent the supposition that Sophocles had two grandsons named Sophocles. If Iophon had a son, he would naturally be called Sophocles; and if the son of Theoris had a son, Sophocles also would be the name that would certainly be given to him. [62] 2, 6, 36. [63] Jowett, p. 285; ‘Rep.,’ p. 455. [64] See Book iv. c. 2, sect. 6. [65] Cl. Alex. p. 751, ‘Strom.,’ vi. 24. [66] ‘Symp.,’ c. ii. 9. [67] Dionysius makes Servius Tullius admit the freedman to citizenship (iv. 22). [68] Columella, i. 8, 19. [69] Livy, 4, 1 ff. [70] Plutarch, ‘Tib. Gracchus,’ i. [71] The story may not be historical, but the Romans regarded it as such. [72] Gell. x. 23; Val. Max. vi. c. 3, 9–12. [73] Livy, viii. 18. [74] Livy, xl. 37. [75] Livy, xxix. 14, 10. [76] Livy, xxix. 10, 5. [77] Livy, xxxix. 8 ff. 18. [78] Livy xxxiv. 1–8; Val. Max. ix. 1, 3; Zonaras ix. 17; Livy v. 25; Mackintosh ii. 345. [79] Plutarch, ‘Cato Major,’ viii. [80] Val. Max. viii. 3, 3; Quint. i. 1, 6; App. ‘Bell. Civ.,’ iv. (6), 32. [81] Livy, Epitome, xli. [82] Plutarch, ‘Cato Minor.’ 25. [83] xiv. 6, 17, &c. [84] ‘De Gubernatione Dei,’ vii. 65–91. [85] i. 376. [86] Paulus in ‘Digest,’ 45, l. 134. [87] vi. 200. [88] P. 133. [89] Val. Max., 2, 1, 4; Dionys. Hal., ‘Antiqu. Rom.,’ ii. 25; Plutarch, ‘Quæst Rom.,’ 14, compar. Thes. c. Rom. 6; Lycurg., c. Numa 3; A. Gellius, iv. 3, xvii. 21, 44; Rein, ‘Rom. Privatrecht,’ 451 note; Val. Max. 2, 9, 2. [90] P. 70.