Cebes

Cebes, a Theban, disciple and friend of Socrates, and reputed author of the Pinax, or 'votive tablet,' a philosophical dialogue, representing allegorically the temptations of this life, and teaching that True Learning can alone make for happiness. In spite of its pure Attic, and its truly Socratic tendency, modern criticism now assigns the work to the 2d century A.D. It was extremely popular in the middle ages, a sort of 'Pilgrim's Progress' indeed; and was translated into all the languages of Europe, as well as Arabic, which latter version, made possibly in the 9th century, is our sole record of the close of the dialogue. See Jerram's Cebetis Tabula (Oxf. Clar. Press, 1878).