Eubulides says: "the Eristic, asking his horned questions and confounding the orators with bogus-pretentious arguments, has gone, with the braggadocio of
Demosthenes."
*(rombostwmulh/qra: *eu)bouli/dhs fhsi/n: ou(ristiko\s kerati/nas e)rwtw=n kai\ yeudalazo/sin lo/gois tou\s r(h/toras kuli/wn a)ph=lq', e)/xwn *dhmosqe/nous th\n r(ombostwmulh/qran.
A garbled version of
Diogenes Laertius 2.108, where the quotation comes from an unnamed comic poet (
Comica adespota fr. 294 Kock, now 149 K.-A.) and includes the name given here: '
Eubulides the Eristic...'. (For the mid-C4-BCE philosopher
Eubulides of Miletus -- purportedly a teacher of
Demosthenes -- and, inter alia, his Horned Argument ["have you lost your horns?"], see generally OCD(4) s.v.) Furthermore the headword here, repeated in the course of the entry itself, is a garbled version of the original;
Plutarch,
Demosthenes 9 shows that it should be
r(wpoperperh/thra.
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