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All which Socrates possessed was not worth three minæ, in which he reckons a house he had in the city. Critobulus often prevailed upon him to accompany him to the comedy. Xantippe, his wife, the most ill-tempered of women: he made use of her to exercise his philosophy. He amused himself by dancing when he was fifty years old: his face remarkably ugly, and resembling that of the Sileni or satyrs, with large prominent eyes, a short flat nose turned up, wide nostrils, great mouth, etc., nick-named ὁ Φροντιστής He rarely went out of the walls of Athens; was never out of Attica, but when he served in time of war, and once to the Isthmian games. He was seventy years old when he died. He left three sons, the eldest a youth, the two youngest children. His intrepid and cheerful behaviour at his trial and death. Compared to a torpedo. Called Prodicus, the sophist, his master. Learns, at near fifty years of age, to play on the lyre of Connus, son of Metrobius. His mother, Phænarete, married Chæredemus, and had by him a son named Patrocles. Seldom used to bathe, and commonly went barefooted. He could bear great quantities of wine without being overpowered by it, but did not choose to drink voluntarily.