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Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Phaedo: Phaedo
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[117c] “but I may and must pray to the gods that my departure hence be a fortunate one; so I offer this prayer, and may it be granted.” With these words he raised the cup to his lips and very cheerfully and quietly drained it. Up to that time most of us had been able to restrain our tears fairly well, but when we watched him drinking and saw that he had drunk the poison, we could do so no longer, but in spite of myself my tears rolled down in floods, so that I wrapped my face in my cloak and wept for myself; for it was not for him that I wept,
There are a total of 9 comments on and cross references to this page.
Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
2687 [EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES]
2744 [I. With the Infinitive depending on Verbs of Negative Meaning]: hoioi te êsan katechein to mê dakruein
Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [1249-1555: Fourth episode]: emou ge...astakti echôrei ta dakrua
* [1579-1779: Exodus]: kai hêmôn hoi polloi teôs men epieikôs hoioi te êsan katechein to mê dakruein, hôs de eidomen pinonta te kai pepôkota
Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
479 [Bemerkungen über besondere Eigentümlichkeiten im Gebrauche des artikulierten Infinitivs.]
514 [Häufung der Negationen. — Überflüssige Negation.]
Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]
811 [Infinitive with to mê, or to mê ou.]
Cross references from George W. Mooney, Commentary on Apollonius: Argonautica:
* [Commentary]: epischomenos epepien
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966. OCLC: 19433521 ISBN: 0674990404
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