[198] See p. 203, ante.
[199] Mitford, chap. xxxi. 2.
[200] Plat. Apol., § 3, part i., vol. ii. p. 93, ed. Bekker.
[201] The Apology of Plato, though commonly printed without any division, consists of three parts: Socrates’ defence of himself; his second speech, as to the amount of punishment, which begins at § 25 (part i., vol. ii., p. 128, ed. Bekker); and his address to the judges after sentence of death was passed, which begins at § 29 (part i., vol. ii., p. 133).
[202] This public maintenance (σιτεῖσθαι ἐν πρυτανείῳ) was esteemed one of the highest honours that the state could confer.
[203] Athenian magistrates, who had the charge of executing criminals.
[204] ταυρηδὸν ὑποβλέψας, looking up like a bull.
[205] That is, profusely.
[206] The Greeks thought it of much consequence that any momentous business should be undertaken under favourable omens. Sounds of lamentation were ill–omened; even the direct mention of death was avoided when a periphrasis would serve. The tragic poets abound in instances of this sort of euphemism.
[207] Taylor’s translation of Plato. Some slight alterations have been made where the translator seemed to have gone unnecessarily far from the language of the original.