Note 558 — Chapter LXVII · THE DRAMA. — RHETORIC AND DIALECTICS. — THE SOPHISTS.
Reading edition
Æschinês cont. Timarch. c. 34. Æschinês calls Demosthenês also a sophist, c. 27.
We see plainly from the terms in Plato’s Politicus, c. 38, p. 299 B, μετεωρολόγον, ἀδολεσχήν τινα σοφιστὴν, that both Sokratês and Plato himself were designated as sophists by the Athenian public.