A good Athenian, he says, is more than ordinarily good, because he is inspired by nature and not manufactured by law.

The love of listening which is attributed to the Timocrat in the Republic is also exhibited in him.

The Athenian on his side has a pleasure in speaking to the Lacedaemonian of the struggle in which their ancestors were jointly engaged against the Persians.

A connexion with Athens is likewise intimated by the Cretan Cleinias.

He is the relative of Epimenides, whom, by an anachronism of a century,--perhaps arising as Zeller suggests (Plat.