his favourite style seems to have been dialogues some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries as on [[alcibiades in econd of his two works entitled cyrus on gorgias in his archelaus and on plato in his satho his style was pure and elegant and theopompus even said that plato stole from him many of his thoughts cicero however calls him "a man more intelligent than learned" لاتين homo acutus magis quam eruditus he possessed considerable powers of wit and sarcasm and was fond of playing upon words saying for instance that he would rather fall among crows korakes than flatterers kolakes for the one devour the dead but the other the living two declamations of his are preserved named ajax and ulysses which are purely rhetorical