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198 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *s111, entry sofisth/s
   : of the philosophic sage, from late v B.C., a Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money, such as Prodicus, Gorgias, Protagoras, (21.24)

2. James Adam, The Republic of Plato book 9, section 581E
   It is tempting to make the verb middle (‘dispute with one another’), as in Laws 957 D, and suppose that the pleasures are personified, as the two lives are in Prodicus' apologue of Heracles at the cross-roads ( ff. (18.66)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   A scholiast on Homer (Od. xiii. 289) mentions her representation of Virtue as being similar to that of Xenophon in the celebrated fable of Prodicus ; and there are two or three grammatical references to single words used by her (Ath. xi. p. 467, f.; Eustath. p. 1207. 14; Poll. ii. 23; Hesych. (17.71)

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