“ De Aeschylo et Sophocle et Euripide (lii.) , a comparison of the treatment of the story of Philoctetes by the three great Greek tragedians; and Philoctetes (lix.) , a summary of the prologue to the lost play by Euripides. In his later life, Dio, who had originally attacked the philosophers, himself became a convert to Stoicism. To this period belong the essays on moral subjects, such as the denunciation of various cities (Tarsus, Alexandria) for their immorality. Most pleasing of all is the Euboica (vii.) ”

“ Rhodiaca (xxxi.) , an attack on the Rhodians for altering the names on their statues, and thus converting them into memorials of famous men of the day (an imitation of Demosthenes’ Leptines) ; De regno (i.–iv.) , addressed to Trajan, a eulogy of the monarchical form of government, under which the emperor is the representative of Zeus upon earth ”