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Rh his death must therefore have happened between Ol. 93, 4, and Ol. 95, 1. He consulted the Delphian oracle to know if any man were wiser than Socrates. His brother, Chærecrates, survived him.

He was the son of Antipho of Cephisia: and was present at the death of Socrates.

He was brother to Aiantodorus: was a man of small abilities, but of an excellent heart, and remarkable for the affection he bore to Socrates; he was present in the prison at the time of his death. He lived at Phalerus, of which Δῆμος he was; was but a boy when Socrates was fifty-three years old, and must therefore have been under thirty-seven at the time of Socrates's death. He was called Μανικός from the warmth of his temper.

He was an Elean. See his account of Socrates's last moments.

He was a Theban, and a young man at the time of Socrates's death (as was Cebes), at which they were both present. He had received some tincture of the Pythagorean doctrines from Philolaus of Crotona; and was inquisitive and curious in the search of truth, far above all prejudice and credulity.

He was a Theban. (Vid. Simmiam.)

He was a man of piety, and believed in divination. He was present in Callias's symposium; was a person of great honesty, mild, affable, and soberly cheerful: not rich, and a man of few words; was son to Hipponicus and brother to Callias. He was present at the death of Socrates. Rh