第 9 节
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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