This Damon, it seems, was a sophist of the highest order, who used the name of music to conceal this accomplishment from the world, but who really trained Pericles for his political contests just as a trainer prepares an athlete for the games.

What was the strong-fisted, simple-hearted priest beside such a sophist as Maestro Guglielmi!

Do you not know that Diogenes pointed out one of the sophists in this way by stretching out his middle finger?

The study of jurisprudence may, no doubt, enlarge the intellect; but the habit of mind induced by an indiscriminate advocacywhich may be summoned to the defence of a Sidney to-day and of a spoon-thief to-morrowis rather that of the sophist than of the philosophic reasoner.

Evander had dethroned the elder Dionysius "and sent him for vile subsistence, a wandering sophist through the realms of Greece.