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Heraclides declares that in his youth he was so modest and orderly that he was never seen to laugh outright. In spite of this he too was ridiculed by the Comic poets. At any rate Theopompus in his Hedychares saysMeineke, C.G.F. ii. 796.: There is not anything that is truly one, even the number two is scarcely one, according to Plato. Moreover, AnaxandridesComic poet; ib. iii. 170. in his Theseus says: He was eating olives exactly like Plato. Then there is Timon who puns on his name thus:Ib. vi. 25. As Plato placed strange platitudes.
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Alexis again in the MeropisIb. iii. 451.: You have come in the nick of time. For I am at my wits’ end and walking up and down, like Plato, and yet have discovered no wise plan but only tired my legs. And in the AncylionIb. iii. 382.: You don’t know what you are talking about: run about with Plato, and you’ll know all about soap and onions. Amphis,A poet of the Middle Comedy; Meineke, loc. cit. iii. 302. too, in the Amphicrates says: A. And as for the good, whatever that be, that you are likely to get on her account, I know no more about it, master, than I do of the good of Plato. B. Just attend.
