Polus

whereas Hippias and Polus and Gorgias, each of whom most admired and was astonished at himself, you would consider wise and blessed.

Hippias of Elis and Gorgias of Leontini and Polus and Prodicus, the sophists, flourished for a time in Hellas and met with marvellous fame, not only in the other cities but also at Sparta and among the Athenians, and they gathered much money, publicly from the cities and from certain dynasts and kings and private men, according to the means each had.

Nor, then, did he make Gorgias or Polus or Thrasymachus or Prodicus or Meno or Euthyphro or Anytus or Alcibiades or Laches speak in vain, when he might have removed the names;

And what shall we say of Polus and his shrines of learned speech, such as duplication and sententiousness and figurativeness, and what of the names with which Licymnius presented him to effect beautiful diction?

And moreover, if Theages here does despise the instruction of our statesmen, and is looking for some other persons who profess to be able to educate young people, we have here Prodicus of Ceos, Gorgias of Leontini, Polus of Acragas, and many more, who are so wise that they go to our cities and persuade the noblest and wealthiest of our young men—who have the choice of learning from any citizen the …

and it was reported that his own successor as admiral, Polus, had by this time all but reached the Hellespont.