第 9 节
作者:连过十一人      更新:2022-08-21 16:31      字数:1493
  saying; 〃Blessed hearth; to your custody I commit the remains of a
  good and brave man; and; I beseech you; protect and restore them to
  the sepulchre of his fathers; when the Athenians return to their right
  minds。〃
  And; indeed; a very little time and their own sad experience soon
  informed them what an excellent governor; and how great an example and
  guardian of justice and of temperance they had bereft themselves of。
  And now they decreed him a statue of brass; and his bones to be buried
  honourably at the public charge; and for his accusers; Agnonides
  they took themselves; and caused him to be put to death。 Epicurus
  and Demophilus; who fled from the city for fear; his son met with; and
  took his revenge upon them。 This son of his; we are told; was in
  general of an indifferent character; and once when enamoured of a
  slave girl kept by a common harlot merchant; happened to hear
  Theodorus; the atheist; arguing in the Lyceum; that if it were a
  good and honourable thing to buy the freedom of a friend in the
  masculine; why not also of a friend in the feminine; if; for
  example; a master; why not also a mistress? So putting the good
  argument and his passion together; he went off and purchased the
  girl's freedom。 The death which was thus suffered by Phocion revived
  among the Greeks the memory of that of Socrates; the two cases being
  so similar; and both equally the sad fault and misfortune of the city。
  THE END