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ταῦθ᾽ ὑφηγήσατο, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἥκω Heracles ‘traced this plan’, sketched this outline of the Olympic festival, leaving it for us to fill in the details. Now I, Lysias says, do not think that he meant this γνώμης ἐπίδειξις to be frivolous. ‘I am not here to dispute on subtleties or to cavil about words’: like the sophists (Polus, Prodicus, Anaximenes, — Luc. De Her. 3), who have displayed their niceties of dialectic or of grammar at Olympia. Prodicus taught ὀρθότης ὀνομάτων, the accurate use of synonyms, Plat. Euthyd. 277 E. σοφιστῶν, κ.τ.λ. ‘These, I consider, are the tasks of worthless and needy declaimers’. On σοφιστῶν, see below, introd. to Isocrates κατὰ σοφιστῶν. πολίτου Lysias never acquired the Athenian citizenship, though he had deserved it; but at Olympia he would feel that he was at least a citizen of Greece: see Attic Orators, I. 151. τῷ βαρβάρῳ — τυράννων The king of Persia (Artaxerxes Mnemon, 405 — 359 B.C.): — Dionysius I. of Syracuse.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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