16.7); (2) with a technical sense of “adherent” to a great teacher, teaching or master (e.g., Xenophon, Mem. 1.6.3, 4); (3) and with a more restricted sense of an “institutional pupil” of the Sophists (e.g., Demosthenes, Lacr. 35.41.7). Sophists such as Protagoras were among the first to establish an institutional relationship in which the master imparted virtue and knowledge to the disciple through a paid educational process. Socrates and Plato objected to such a form of discipleship on epistemological