Whether you’re standing still or walking; and you care not for cold,

Nor do you long for breakfast time, nor e’er give in to hunger;

But wine and gluttony you shun, and all such kind of follies.

And Ameipsias introduces him on the stage in a cloak, and speaks thus of him:—

O Socrates, among few men the best,

And among many vainest; here at last

You come to us courageously—but where,

Where did you get that cloak? so strange a garment,

Some leather cutter must have given you

By way of joke: and yet this worthy man,