Eryxias

Proceeding upon these principles, we appear to arrive at the conclusion that nineteen twentieths of all the writings which have ever been ascribed to Plato are undoubtedly genuine.

There is another portion of them, including the Epistles, the Epinomis, the Dialogues rejected by the ancients themselves, namely, the Axiochus, De Justo, De Brutute, Demodocus, Sisyphus, Eryxias, which on grounds both of internal and external evidence we are able with equal certainty to reject.

But there still remains a small portion of which we are unable to affirm either that they are genuine or spurious.

They may have been written in youth, or possibly, like the works of some painters, may be partly or wholly the compositions of pupils, or they may have been the writings of some contemporary transferred by accident to the more celebrated name of Plato, or of some Platonist in the next generation who aspired to imitate his master.