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524 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE οίκείως τοίς άρχουσι συνόντα φοβηθέντες μή διαπράξαιτο βονΧεται παρεκινδύνευσάν rives και άποσφάττουσιν εν ry άκροπόλει τόν Έ ϋφρονα τών τε αρχόντων καϊ της βουΧ-ης σν-γκαθ-ημενων 01 μέντοι άρχοντες τους ποιήσαντας εισήγατγον εις τ- ν βουΧήν καϊ ελ εγον τάδε Ώ άνδρες ποΧίται ημείς τουτουσϊ τους ο ποκτείναντας Ευφρονα διώκομεν ττερϊ θανάτου όρώντες 'άτι οί μεν σώφρονες ουδέν δήπου άδικον ουδέ άνοσιον ποιοΐσιν οί δε πονηροϊ κοιούσι μέν λανβάνειν δέ πειρώνται ούτοι δέ τοσούτον πάντας ανθρώπους ύπερβεβΧήκασι τόλμη τε καϊ μιαρία ωστε παρ1 αύτάς τάς αρχάς καϊ παρ1 αυτούς ύμας τους κυρίους οΰστινας δει άποθνήσκειν καϊ ουστινας μή άπεκτειναν τύν άνδρα εί ούν ούτοι μή δωσουσι τήν έσχάτην δίκην τις ποτε πρός τήν πόΧιν θαρρών πορεύσεται VIII reck Composition Translate into Greek prose Nonne Caesarem beatum putas qui cum tanto sit imperio Num putavisti me tam dementem esse ut talia facere auderem Do not thou die on my account nor will die for thee cl went to his house in order that might persuade him to remain but he had left already If he had heard that he would surely have preferred to live Ph Tell me honestly Socrates do you believe this tale of mythology to be true Soc Why should do nothing out of the way if were to refuse it credit as the learned do and go on in their rational- izing method to say that as the girl was playing with Pliarmacaea she was blown over tbe adjoining cliff by blast of the wind Boreas and that having met with her death in this manner she was fabled to have been carried off by the god Boreas either from this place or it you like from Mars' Hill which according to another account was the scene of her adventure But have no leisure for such studies and the reason my friend is this cannot as yet obey the Delphic inscription which bids me know myself and it seems to me ridiculous for one who still destitute of this knowledge to busy himself with matters which in no way concern him