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(2) See Dr. Holden ad loc., Boeckh (Bk. iii. ch. xxiii.), p. 465 f.

(3) Cf. Lycurg. "c. Leocr." 139.

(4) Al. "presidential duties."

(5) {trierarkhias (misthous)}. The commentators in general "suspect"

{misthous}. See Boeckh, "P. E. A." p. 579.

(6) See Boeckh, p. 470 f.; "Revenues," iii. 9, iv. 40.

(7) Or, "to childish matters," "frivolous affairs"; but for the full

import of the phrase {paidikois pragmasi} see "Ages." viii. 2.

Then Critobulus: I cannot gainsay what you have spoken, Socrates, it is indeed high time that you were constituted my patronus, or I shall become in very truth a pitiable object.

To which appeal Socrates made answer: Why, you yourself must surely be astonished at the part you are now playing. Just now, when I said that I was rich, you laughed at me as if I had no idea what riches were, and you were not happy till you had cross-examined me and forced me to confess that I do not possess the hundredth part of what you have; and now you are imploring me to be your patron, and to stint no pains to save you from becoming absolutely and in very truth a pauper. (8)