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INSIPIENTEM: in Xen. αφρων, i.e. without power of thinking. SED: 'but rather that .... HOMINIS NATURA: a periphrasis for homo; cf. Fin. 5, 33 intellegant, si quando naturam hominis dicam, hominem dicere me; nihil enim hoc differt. Cf. Lessing, How the Ancients Represented Death. ATQUI: see n. on 6.
In one passage Plato himself seems to intimate that the time had now come for Socrates, who had passed his whole life in philosophy, to give his own opinion and not to be always repeating the notions of other men. Xen. But any one can see that this is a mere form, of which the affectation grows wearisome as the work advances.
In the first chapter of this Life we learn that it was only the less eatable parts of the victim which were burned. Thus the idea of offering sacrifice always suggested merry-making and feasting to the Greek mind. See Lieut.-Col. Plutarch treats it as a mean structure, unworthy of the sum expended on it; but both Dikæarchus and Pausanias describe it as stately and magnificent. Xen. Hell. 3. 4, 23.
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