His determination to cram down their throats, or put 'bodily into their souls' his own words, elicits a cry of horror from Socrates.

The state of his temper is quite as worthy of remark as the process of the argument.

Nothing is more amusing than his complete submission when he has been once thoroughly beaten.

At first he seems to continue the discussion with reluctance, but soon with apparent good-will, and he even testifies his interest at a later stage by one or two occasional remarks.

When attacked by Glaucon he is humorously protected by Socrates 'as one who has never been his enemy and is now his friend.' From Cicero and Quintilian and from Aristotle's Rhetoric we learn that the Sophist whom Plato has made so ridiculous was a man of note whose writings were preserved in later ages.