Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Cursus in Mediaeval and Vulgar Latin
The sophist Thrasymachus is chie?y known to us from the merciless caricatures of Plato. In the Phaedrus he is depicted as the Chalee domian giant who can put a whole company of people into a passion and out of it again by his mighty magic: and is first-rate at inventing or disposing of any sort of calumny on any grounds or none'. In the Republic he appears as a mere child in the hands of Socrates, and resorts to insolence in order to cover his discomfiture. No one could suspect that he was one of the greatest inventors in the field of litera ture that the world has seen, who laid d0wn the lines upon which prose was to develop for nearly two thousand years.
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