1. See pp. 22–3.

2. For examples of this view see Irwin and Vicaire; also G. Grote, Plato and the Other Companions of Socrates (London 1885), vol. 2, p. 149; cf. C. Ritter, Platan: San Leben, seine Schriften, seine Lehre (Munich 1910), vol. 2, pp. 295–7, and H. Raeder, Platans Philosophische entwickelung (Leipzig 1905), p. 210. For a contrasting view of the dialogue’s purpose see, for example, E. Horneffer, Platon gegen Sokrates (Leipzig 1904), p. 35 ff.