His favourite style seems to have been dialogues, some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries, as on [[Alcibiades in econd of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and Theopompus even said that Plato stole from him many of his thoughts. Cicero, however, calls him ""a man more intelligent than learned"" (لاتين: homo acutus magis quam eruditus). He possessed considerable powers of wit and sarcasm, and was fond of playing upon words; saying, for instance, that he would rather fall among crows (korakes) than flatterers (kolakes), for the one devour the dead, but the other the living. Two declamations of his are preserved, named Ajax and Ulysses, which are purely rhetorical.