[Footnote 60: Dionysius Hal. De Isocrate Judicium, pp. 576, 577, Reiske: [Greek: de/smas pa/nu polla\s dikanikô=n lo/gôn I)sokratei/ôn periphe/resthai/ phêsin u(po\ tô=n bibliopôlô=n A)ristote/lês.] It appears that Aphareus, the adopted son of Isokrates, denied that Isokrates had ever written any judicial orations; while Kephisodôrus, the disciple of Isokrates, in his reply to Aristotle's accusations, admitted that Isokrates had composed a few, but only a few. Dionysius accepts the allegation of Kephisodôrus and discredits that of Aristotle: I, for my part, believe the allegation of Aristotle, upon a matter of fact which he had the means of knowing. Cicero also affirms (Brutus, xii. 46-48), on the authority of Aristotle, that Isokrates distinguished himself at first as a composer of speeches intended to be delivered by actual pleaders in the Dikastery or Ekklesia; and that he afterwards altered his style. And this is what Aristotle says (respecting Isokrates) in Rhetoric. i. 9, 1368, a. 20, [Greek: o(/per I)sokra/tês e)poi/ei dia\ tê\n sunê/theian tou= dikologei=n], where Bekker has altered the substantive to [Greek: tê\n a)sunê/theian]; in my judgment, not wisely. I do not perceive the meaning or pertinence of [Greek: a)sunê/theian] in that sentence.] [Footnote 61: See Plato, Euthydemus, p. 305; also 'Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates,' vol. i. ch. xix. pp. 557-563. It is exactly this _juste milieu_ which Dionysius Hal. extols as the most worthy of being followed, as being [Greek: ê( a)lêthinê\ philosophi/a]. De Isocrate Jud. pp. 543, 558.]