We have discussed the laudatory and the scandalous legends of Plato's life, how his influence manifested itself in the history of philosophy, what he meant to the Christian philosophers, what prohlems his style presented to criticism, what was his relation to rhetoric and to the poets — but all this does not quite do justice to Plato's effect on ancient learning. His ideas and the written manifestations of these ideas pervaded all cultural life in various ways and hecame an important factor in literature as well as among people. Without attempting to present a systematic or a comprehensive classification, we wish to add to those writers already mentioned further names from various fields of literature and antique life as a whole, by which we should like rather to indicate than to explain in detail where traces of this great mind are to be found. At first, however, it seems appropriate to give an overall view.