1. Connus is also mentioned as Socrates’ music-teacher at Menexenus 235e-236a.

2. The pun is not in the Greek, but captures the flavour of the outrageous compound word Plato uses, which could, in fact, be out of a comedy, since the comic poets were fond of inventing such compounds: Plato’s is literally ‘old-man-teacher’.

3. Interest in the sophists was primarily among young men; sophists, therefore, pitched their displays at that audience.