Contrary to the text,
Socrates
held that a man should care for his bodily
health.
health.
Aristophanes
The
last of the month was called [Greek: en_e kai nea], the day of the old
and the new or the day of the new moon, and on that day interest, which
it was customary to pay monthly, became due.
[473] Literally, the horse marked with the [Greek: koppa] ([Symbol:
Letter 'koppa']), a letter of the older Greek alphabet, afterwards
disused, which distinguished the thoroughbreds.
[474] Phidippides dreams that he is driving in a chariot race, and that
an opponent is trying to cut into his track.
[475] There was a prize specially reserved for war-chariots in the games
of the Athenian hippodrome; being heavier than the chariots generally
used, they doubtless had to cover a lesser number of laps, which explains
Phidippides' question.
[476] The wife of Alcmaeon, a descendant of Nestor, who, driven from
Messenia by the Heraclidae, came to settle in Athens in the twelfth
century, and was the ancestor of the great family of the Alcmaeonidae,
Pericles and Alcibiades belonged to it.
[477] The Greek word for horse is [Greek: hippos].
[478] Derived from [Greek: pheidesthai], to save.
[479] The name Phidippides contains both words, [Greek: hippos], horse,
and [Greek: pheidesthai], to save, and was therefore a compromise arrived
at between the two parents.
[480] The heads of the family of the Alcmaeonidae bore the name of
Megacles from generation to generation.
[481] A mountain in Attica.
[482] Aristophanes represents everything belonging to Socrates as being
mean, even down to his dwelling.
[483] Crates ascribes the same doctrine in one of his plays to the
Pythagorean Hippo, of Samos.
[484] This is pure calumny. Socrates accepted no payment.
[485] Here the poet confounds Socrates' disciples with the Stoics.
Contrary to the text, Socrates held that a man should care for his bodily
health.
[486] One of Socrates' pupils.
[487] Female footwear. They were a sort of light slipper and white in
colour.
[488] He calls off their attention by pretending to show them a
geometrical problem and seizes the opportunity to steal something for
supper. The young men who gathered together in the palaestra, or
gymnastic school, were wont there to offer sacrifices to the gods before
beginning the exercises. The offerings consisted of smaller victims, such
as lambs, fowl, geese, etc. , and the flesh afterwards was used for their
meal (_vide_ Plato in the 'Lysias'). It is known that Socrates taught
wherever he might happen to be, in the palaestra as well as elsewhere.
[489] The first of the seven sages, born at Miletus.
[490] Because of their wretched appearance. The Laconians, blockaded in
Sphacteria, had suffered sorely from famine.
[491] In fact, this was one of the chief accusations brought against
Socrates by Miletus and Anytus; he was reproached for probing into the
mysteries of nature.
[492] When the Athenians captured a town, they divided its lands by lot
among the poorer Athenian citizens.
[493] An allusion to the Athenian love of law-suits and litigation.
[494] When originally conquered by Pericles, the island of Euboea, off
the coasts of Boeotia and Attica, had been treated with extreme
harshness.
last of the month was called [Greek: en_e kai nea], the day of the old
and the new or the day of the new moon, and on that day interest, which
it was customary to pay monthly, became due.
[473] Literally, the horse marked with the [Greek: koppa] ([Symbol:
Letter 'koppa']), a letter of the older Greek alphabet, afterwards
disused, which distinguished the thoroughbreds.
[474] Phidippides dreams that he is driving in a chariot race, and that
an opponent is trying to cut into his track.
[475] There was a prize specially reserved for war-chariots in the games
of the Athenian hippodrome; being heavier than the chariots generally
used, they doubtless had to cover a lesser number of laps, which explains
Phidippides' question.
[476] The wife of Alcmaeon, a descendant of Nestor, who, driven from
Messenia by the Heraclidae, came to settle in Athens in the twelfth
century, and was the ancestor of the great family of the Alcmaeonidae,
Pericles and Alcibiades belonged to it.
[477] The Greek word for horse is [Greek: hippos].
[478] Derived from [Greek: pheidesthai], to save.
[479] The name Phidippides contains both words, [Greek: hippos], horse,
and [Greek: pheidesthai], to save, and was therefore a compromise arrived
at between the two parents.
[480] The heads of the family of the Alcmaeonidae bore the name of
Megacles from generation to generation.
[481] A mountain in Attica.
[482] Aristophanes represents everything belonging to Socrates as being
mean, even down to his dwelling.
[483] Crates ascribes the same doctrine in one of his plays to the
Pythagorean Hippo, of Samos.
[484] This is pure calumny. Socrates accepted no payment.
[485] Here the poet confounds Socrates' disciples with the Stoics.
Contrary to the text, Socrates held that a man should care for his bodily
health.
[486] One of Socrates' pupils.
[487] Female footwear. They were a sort of light slipper and white in
colour.
[488] He calls off their attention by pretending to show them a
geometrical problem and seizes the opportunity to steal something for
supper. The young men who gathered together in the palaestra, or
gymnastic school, were wont there to offer sacrifices to the gods before
beginning the exercises. The offerings consisted of smaller victims, such
as lambs, fowl, geese, etc. , and the flesh afterwards was used for their
meal (_vide_ Plato in the 'Lysias'). It is known that Socrates taught
wherever he might happen to be, in the palaestra as well as elsewhere.
[489] The first of the seven sages, born at Miletus.
[490] Because of their wretched appearance. The Laconians, blockaded in
Sphacteria, had suffered sorely from famine.
[491] In fact, this was one of the chief accusations brought against
Socrates by Miletus and Anytus; he was reproached for probing into the
mysteries of nature.
[492] When the Athenians captured a town, they divided its lands by lot
among the poorer Athenian citizens.
[493] An allusion to the Athenian love of law-suits and litigation.
[494] When originally conquered by Pericles, the island of Euboea, off
the coasts of Boeotia and Attica, had been treated with extreme
harshness.
