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Excerpt from The Apology of Plato: With a Revised d104 and English Notes, and a Digest of Platonic Idioms
Of Meletus, the ostensible prosecutor of Socrates, in reality little more than the tool of Anytus, we only know that he was a young tragic poet. He is characterised by Plato (euthy phro 2 B) as ve'os mg ml dyvois, and is ridiculed as a poet by Aristophanes (ran. I The Meletus (andoo. De Myst. 94. P. 12) who was one of the four who arrested Leon (apol. 32 C) may have been this Meletus' father, who bore the same name, but there is nothing to show it.
Lycon, a rhetorician, is mentioned by Aristophanes (vesp. 1301) With Antipho.
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