Editing Sophron (section)

==Influence==
[[Plato]] is said to have introduced Sophron's works into [[Athens]] and to have made use of them in his dialogues; according to [[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|location=3.18}}</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 name=suda /> 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|publisher=Rupert Hart-Davis }}</ref>|Humphry House}}