[25] Phlius, to which Echecrates belonged, was a town of Sicyonia, in
Peloponnesus.
[26] A Pythagorean of Crotona.
[27] Namely, "that it is better to die than to live."
[28] Hitto, Boetian for hioto.
[29] Of Pythagoras.
[30] Some boyish spirit.
[31] That is, at a time of life when the body is in full vigor.
[32] In the original there is a play on the words Haides and
haeides, which I can only attempt to retain by departing from
the usual rendering of the former word.
[33] By this I understand him to mean that the soul alone can perceive
the truth, but the senses, as they are different, receive and convey
different impressions of the same thing; thus, the eye receives one
impression of an object, the ear a totally different one.
[34] kai ahythis eteros kai eteros, that is, "with one argument
after another" Though Cousin translates it _et successivement tout
different de luimeme_ and Ast, _et rursus alia atque alia_, which
may be taken in either sense, yet it appears to me to mean that,
when a man repeatedly discovers the fallacy of arguments which he
before believed to be true, he distrusts reasoning altogether, just
as one who meets with friend after friend who proves unfaithful
becomes a misanthrope.
[35] Lib. xx, v. 7.
[36] Harmony was the wife of Cadmus, the founder of Thebes; Socrates,
therefore, compares his two Theban friends, Simmias and Cebes, with
them, and says that, having overcome Simmias, the advocate of
Harmony, he must now deal with Cebes, who is represented by Cadmus.
[37] einai ti, literally, "is something."
[38] That is, to single.
[39] Sec. 113.
[40] It is difficult to express the distinction between osia
and nomima. The former word seems to have reference to the souls of
the dead; the latter, to their bodies.
[41] Its place of interment.
[42] A proverb meaning "a matter of great difficulty."
[43] "Iliad," lib. viii., v. 14.
[44] A metallic substance of a deep-blue color, frequently mentioned by
the earliest Grecian writers, but of which the nature is unknown.