Strabo was led to his error by the fact that the Iliad and Odyssey were among the very few survivals of the end of an epoch of verse poetry, and also because some of the pre-socratic philosophers like Parmenides and Empedocles wrote in verse.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
The older Cynicism, which sprang from the simpler and more popular aspect of the socratic teaching, had long disappeared.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Passion, in fact, is an impetuous and erring motion of the reason, and vice, in the old socratic phrase, is an error of judgment, a fit of ignorance of the true ends of action.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill