[Niall_Livingstone]_A_Commentary_on_Isocrates'_Busiris

34 INTRODUCTIONthat he should ascribe to the original prosecutor charges which hebelieves were implicit at the time of the trial, even if they were notopenly used, 86 than than that he should respond in detail to a newcase against Socrates put forward in a pamphlet after the event.Another attempt to prove Libanius' use of Polycrates' Accusationrests on a link between Libanius Apologia Socratis 87 and Plato Gorgias484b. 87 The argument turns on citation in both places of the Pindarfragment F 169a Maehler (lines 1-4):At Gorgias 484b, Callicles is made to cite this fragment is support ofhis theory of 'natural justice'. At Apologia Socratis 87, it is said to havebeen cited by Socrates' accusers, in the context of their complaintthat Socrates attacked the great poets. Libanius upholds Socrates'criticism of Pindar:Clearly Libanius relies on a corrupt version of the Pindar fragment,which instead of(Paraphrased here as This corrupttext appears also in our manuscripts of the Gorgias. Libanius believes,or makes his defender of Socrates believe, that what is in fact thecorrect text (is a cunning 'improvement' ofPindar's text on the part of Anytus.Wilamowitz argues that Plato himself misquoted the Pindar fragment,and that Polycrates jumped at the opportunity to attack him —or 'Socrates' — for the misquotation. A variation on this view is put86 Such as, perhaps, the charge that Alcibiades was a product of Socrates' evilinfluence (Mem. I.ii.12): see below.87 See especially Wilamowitz 1919 II.95-105 and Chroust 1957 pp. 89 f. withn. 507 (giving further references).