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Line 4: ==Influence== [[Plato]] is said to have introduced Sophron's works into [[Athens]] and to have made use of them in his dialogues; according to ~~the ''~~[[~~Suda~~Diogenes Laërtius]]'', they were Plato's constant companions, and he even slept with them under his pillow;<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_III\|title=Lives of the Eminent Philosophers\|author=Diogenes Laërtius}}</ref> the ''[[Suda]]'' says of the mimes of Sophron, "Plato the philosopher always read them, so as to be sent into an occasional doze."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia\|encyclopedia=Suda\| url=https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-cgi-bin/search.cgi?login=guest&searchstr=sigma,893&field=adlerhw_gr\|title=Sophron}}</ref> Some idea of their general character may be gathered from the 2nd and 15th idylls of [[Theocritus]], which are said to have been imitated from the ''Akestriai'' and ''Isthmiazousai'' of his Syracusan predecessor. Their influence is also to be traced in the satires of [[Persius]].<ref name=EB1911/> {{quote\|Are we then to deny that the so-called mimes of Sophron, which are not even in metre, are stories and imitations, or the dialogues of [[Alexamenus of Teos\|Alexamenos of Teos]], which were written before the Socratic dialogues? Plato is said to have been an admirer and imitator of Sophron, whose works were found under his pillow.<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/aristotlespoetic032945mbp\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/aristotlespoetic032945mbp/page/n36 31]–32\|title=Aristotles Poetics\|year=1956\|author=Humphry House}}</ref>\|Humphry House}}

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