VI. And as it seems, Polemo imitated Xenocrates in everything; and Aristippus, in the fourth book of his treatise on Ancient Luxury, says that Xenocrates loved him; at all events, Polemo used to be always speaking of him, and praising his guileless nature, and his rigorous virtues, and his chaste severity, like that of a Doric building.
VII. He was also very fond of Sophocles, and especially of those passages where, according to one of the comic poets, he seemed to have had a Molossian hound for his colleague in composing his poems; and when there was, to use the expression of Phrynichus:—
And he used to say that Homer was an epic Sophocles, and Sophocles a tragic Homer.
VIII. And he died when he was very old, of decline, having left behind him a great number of writings. And there is this epigram of ours upon him:—
LIFE OF CRATES.
I. Crates was the son of Antigenes, and of the Thriasian burgh, and a pupil and attached