"I will not vouchsafe to reply upon this answer," snarled Fulke, whose temper had not been improved by the debate-"too childish for a Sophister!"
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
In justification of the two Votes against lending or advancing Money to the King, he falls to railing, like a Sophister in the Schools, when his Syllogisms are at an end.
"His Majesties Declaration Defended"
John Dryden
Others professed to be indignant that the Athenians, who formerly had come to Sicily with a great fleet and a numerous land-army, and perished miserably without being able to take the city of Syracuse, should now, by means of one Sophister, overturn the sovereignty of Dionysius; inveigling him to cashier his guard of ten thousand lances, dismiss a navy of four hundred galleys, disband an army of ten thousand horse and many times over that number of foot, and go seek in the schools an unknown and imaginary bliss, and learn by the mathematics how to be happy; while, in the meantime, the substantial enjoyments of absolute power, riches, and pleasure would be handed over to Dion and his sister's children.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh