Kitap 9
8.54
The first of his books he read in public was that On the Gods, the introduction to which we quoted above; he read it at Athens in Euripides’ house, or, as some say, in Megaclides’; others again make the place the Lyceum and the reader his disciple Archagoras, Theodotus’s son, who gave him the benefit of his voice. His accuser was Pythodorus, son of Polyzelus, one of the four hundred; Aristotle, however, says it was Euathlus.
8.55
The works of his which survive are these: * * The Art of Controversy. Of Wrestling. On Mathematics. Of the State. Of Ambition. Of Virtues. Of the Ancient Order of Things. On the Dwellers in Hades. Of the Misdeeds of Mankind. A Book of Precepts. Of Forensic Speech for a Fee, two books of opposing arguments. This is the list of his works.That the list is defective is evident from the fact that the two works by which Protagoras is best known (supra, §§ 51, 54) are not here named. Moreover there is a dialogue which Plato wrote upon him.
8.55
Philochorus says that, when he was on a voyage to Sicily, his ship went down, and that Euripides hints at this in his Ixion.
8.56
According to some his death occurred, when he was on a journey, at nearly ninety years of age, though Apollodorus makes his age seventy, assigns forty years for his career as a sophist, and puts his floruit in the 84th Olympiad.444-441 b.c.
8.56
There is an epigram of my own on him as followsAnth. Pal. vii. 130.: Protagoras, I hear it told of thee Thou died’st in eld when Athens thou didst flee; Cecrops’ town chose to banish thee; but though Thou ’scap’dst Athene, not so Hell below.
8.56
The story is told that once, when he asked Euathlus his disciple for his fee, the latter replied, But I have not won a case yet. Nay, said Protagoras, if I win this case against you I must have the fee, for winning it; if you win, I must have it, because you win it.
8.56
There was another Protagoras, an astronomer, for whom Euphorion wrote a dirge; and a third who was a Stoic philosopher.
