Polus
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a Polus
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Sophist named as an example of one who admired his own wisdom, contrasted with Socrates and the speaker.
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;