Socrates and Alsobites - Case Studies in Antiquity

The character of else by is certainly as you point out a rather colorful character in our sources. He by his personal he knew a lot of the characters involved in the book. It turns out, however, also that if we look at what Xenophon says about Socrates in the memorabilia Socrates himself didn't do didn't advise just alsobites. There are actually several other examples at one point he advises glaucon who was Plato's brother not to get into politics and so this is I think you really should do that sort of thing.