ΞΕΝΟΦΩΝΤΟΣ ΑΠΟΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΥΜΑΤΑ. XENOPHON'S MEMORABILIA OF SOCRATES, WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION BY R. D. C. ROBBINS, PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES IN MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 448 & 445 BROADWAY. M.DCCC. LXIII. MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. INTRODUCTION. LIFE OF SOCRATES. PARENTAGE AND EARLY LIFE. SOCRATES was of genuine Attic extraction. He spoke of himself, sportively, perhaps, as belonging to the family of the Dædalidæ of mythical renown, since his father Sophroniscus, by his devotion to the profession of a statuary, proved himself a loyal successor of the founder of the family, Dædalus.* His mother, Phænarete, was a midwife, as her son reminds us, by comparing his own relation to the mind with hers to the body. She seems, however, to have been a woman of excellent character, and of many noble qualities. The quiet, unostentatious home of these. parents was in the suburbs of Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, in the borough Alopece, near Cynosarges (White-dog-town), where the school of the Cynics was held, and not very far from Mount Lycabettus, probably identical with the present hill of St. * Plato. Euthyph. 11. Β. C. : Τοῦ ἡμετέρου προγόνου, ὦ Εὐθύφρον ἔοικεν εἶναι Δαιδάλου τὰ ὑπὸ σοῦ λεγόμενα. Cf, also Alcib. I. 121. Δ. + Cf. Plato, Theaetetus, p. 149. A. and 151. A. In the latter passage he says: Πάσχουσι δὲ δὴ· οἱ ἐμοὶ ξυγγιγνόμενοι καὶ τοῦτο ταὐτὸν ταῖς τικτούσαις, κ.τ.λ. Theaetetus, p. 149. A. |