Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato (Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.5.27)

the glory of the man. After the death of Socrates, he again used Cratylus the Heraclitean as a teacher, for whom he also composed a dialogue of the same name, titling it Cratylus, or On the Correctness of Names. After him, he is sent again to Italy. And having found there a school of the Pythagoreans being established, he again had Archytas a philosopher and statesman associated with the Pythagorean school the Pythagorean as a teacher. His dialogue Philebus is also attributed to him, named after a certain Pythagorean, where he also mentions Archytas. Since the philosopher must be a spectator of the works of nature, he is also sent to Sicily to view the craters of fire fire in Mount Etna The. And not for the sake of a Sicilian table a reference to the luxurious and indulgent lifestyle associated with ancient Sicily, noble Aristeides, as you say. Having arrived in Syracuse to Dionysius, who was the great tyrant, he attempted to change the tyranny into an aristocracy. For this reason, he also arrived at his court. And when Dionysius asked him, "Whom do you consider to be happy among men?"—as if thinking that the philosopher would speak about him, flattering him—he replied that it was Socrates. He asked him again, "What do you consider the work of a man to be?"