Memorabilia (English)
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“The indictment against him was to this effect: Socrates is guilty of rejecting the gods acknowledged by the state and of bringing in strange deities: he is also guilty of corrupting the youth.” (source)
“Socrates said what he meant: for he said that the deity gave him a sign” (source)
“For in everything that men do the body is useful; and in all uses of the body it is of great importance to be in as high a state of physical efficiency as possible. [6] Why, even in the process of thinking, in which the use of the body seems to be reduced to a minimum, it is matter of common knowledge that grave mistakes may often be traced to bad health. And because the body is in a bad condition, loss of memory, depression, discontent, insanity often assail the mind so violently as to drive whatever knowledge it contains clean out of it.” (source)
“To put such questions to the gods seemed to his mind profane. In short, what the gods have granted us to do by help of learning, we must learn; what is hidden from mortals we should try to find out from the gods by divination: for to him that is in their grace the gods grant a sign.” (source)
“In the first place, then, he tried to make his companions prudent towards the gods. Accordingly he discoursed on this topic at various times, as those who were present used to relate. The following conversation between him and Euthydemus I heard myself.” (source)
- Title: Memorabilia (English)
- Authors: Xenophon, E. C. Marchant
- Publisher: Perseus Digital Library
- Print Publication Date: 1923
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Classics › English--History
- Resource ID: LLS:XENMEMENG
- Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
- Metadata Last Updated: 2021-03-03T20:18:20Z