As is typical for the period, his left-hand notation includes a mixture of continuo bass lines and standard fill-outs such as Alberti basses.

For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables.

Moreover, he ridicules the Socratic theme of pathos when he accuses Socrates of ranting in a demegoric manner because he has managed to have Polus suffer [pathein] the same mishap [pathos] that Gorgias has suffered [pathein] before him when Socarates goaded him into the admission that the rhetorician has to teach justice [482c].

Yet, according to recent research, the alleged grumpiness of great-grandma and great-grandpa is more myth than reality.