PRODICUS OF See also:

• CEOS (Gr. Kiws, mod. Zea or Tzia)

CEOS (b. c. 465 or 450 B.C.)  , a See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek humanist of the first See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of the Sophistical See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement, known as the " precursor of See also:

• SOCRATES

Socrates." He was still living in 399 B.C . He came to See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens as See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador from See also:

• CEOS (Gr. Kiws, mod. Zea or Tzia)

Ceos, and became known as a See also:

• SPEAKER

speaker and a teacher . Like See also:

• PROTAGORAS (c. 481-411 B.C.)

Protagoras, he professed to See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train his pupils for domestic and civic affairs; but it would appear that, while Protagoras's See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments of See also:

• EDUCATION

education were See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric and See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, Prodicus made See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

ethics prominent in his curriculum . In ethics he was a pessimist . Though he discharged his civic duties in spite of a frail physique, he emphasized the sorrows of See also:

• LIFE

life; and yet he advocated no See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

hope-less resignation, but rather the remedy of See also:

• WORK

work, and took as his See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model Heracles, the embodiment of virile activity . The See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of his views may be recognized as See also:

• LATE

late as the Shepherd" of Hernias . His views on the origin of the belief in the gods is strikingly See also:

• MODERN

modern . First came those See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers which benefit mankind (comparing the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile), and after these the deified men who have rendered services to humanity . But he was no atheist, for the pantheist See also:

• ZENO

Zeno spoke highly of him . Of his natural See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy we know only the titles of his See also:

• TREATISES

treatises On Nature and On the Nature of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man . His chief See also:

• INTEREST

interest is that he sought to give precision to the use of words . Two of his discourses were specially famous; one, " On Propriety of See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

Language," is repeatedly alluded to by See also:

• PLATO

Plato; the other, entitled 't pae, contained the celebrated See also:

• APOLOGUE (from the Gr. &rroXoyos, a statement or account)

apologue of the Choice of Heracles, of which the Xenophontean Socrates (Mem. ii .

1, 21 seq.) gives a See also:

• SUMMARY

summary . See also:

• THERAMENES (d. 4o3 B.c.)

Theramenes, See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides and Isocrates are said to have been pupils or hearers of Prodicus . By his immediate successors he was variously estimated: Plato satirizes him in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early dialogues; See also:

• ARISTOPHANES
• ARISTOPHANES (c. 448–385 B.e.1)

Aristophanes in the Taynvturai calls him " a babbling See also:

• BROOK

brook "; See also:

• AESCHINES (389-314 B.C.)
• AESCHINES (5th century B.C.)

Aeschines the Socratic condemns him as a sophist . See Spengel, Artium scriptores, pp . 45 sqq.; See also:

• WELCKER, FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (1784-1868)

Welcker, " Prodikos der Vorganger See also:

• DES

des Sokrates," in Rheinisches Museum (1833), and in Kleine Schriften, ii . 393; See also:

• HUMMEL, JOHANN NEPOMUK (1778-1837)

Hummel, De Prodico Sophista (See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, 1846) ; Cougny, De Prodico Ceio (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1858) . prisoner not having been formally charged when brought before the See also:

• VICE

vice-See also:

• CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor); so the See also:

• WRIT (O. Eng. gewrit, writ, from writan, to write)

writ was granted and the prisoner released . She afterwards brought an See also:

• ACTION

action against the See also:

• PROCTOR
• PROCTOR, ALEXANDER PHIMISTER (1862– )
• PROCTOR, RICHARD ANTHONY (1837-1888)

proctor, which failed . It was now decided to abolish the practice of See also:

• HEARING (formed from the verb " to hear," O. Eng. hyran, heron, &c., a common Teutonic verb; cf. Ger. Koren, Dutch hooren, &c.; the O. Tent. form is seen in Goth. hausjan; the initial h makes any connexion with " ear," Lat. audire, or Gr. &Kobew very doub

hearing these cases in See also:

• CAMERA (a Latin adaptation of Gr. Kagapa, an arched chamber)

camera . The whole practice was, how-ever, objected to by the authorities of the See also:

• TOWN

town, and after See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference an agreement was arrived at, the proctorial See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction over persons not members of the university being abolished (1904) .