Men do not thus strive to prove that Shakespeare was a mere man, or that socrates or Epictetus was a mere man.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
He saw there was poetry in the prose mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus and in the dialogues of socrates, though these were not classified as poetry.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
To no one, except perhaps to socrates of yore, has it been given to have sit at his feet as pupils so many men who were to leave their marks upon the developing thought of a great era in human progress.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh