LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, &c.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

NEW-YORK:

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Jim 3, 1943

BOOK NINTH, CONTINUED.

CHAPTER IV.

HISTORY OF SOCRATES ABRIDGED.

SECTION I. Birth and education of Socrates.

Sect. II. Of the dæmon, or familiar spirit of Socrates.

Seet. III. Socrates declared the wisest of mankind by the oracle.

Sect. IV. Socrates devotes himself entirely to the instruction of youth in

Athens.

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Sect. V. Socrates applies himself to discredit the Sophists in the opinion of

the young Athenians.

23

Sect. VI. Socrates is accused of holding bad opinions in regard to the

gods. He is condemned to die.

25

Sect. VII. Socrates refuses to escape out of prison. He drinks the poison.. 38

Sect. VIII. Reflections on Socrates, and the sentence passed upon him by

the Athenians.

BOOK TENTH.

49

THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS, CONTAINING THE MANNERS AND

CUSTOMS OF THE GREEKS

56

Sect. I. Idea of the Spartan Government.

Sect. II. Love of poverty instituted at Sparta.

Sect.III. Laws established by Minos in Crete.

ARTICLE 11.

Of the Government of Athens.

Sect 1. Foundation of the Government of Athens.

Sect. II. Of the inhabitants of Athens.

Of the Citizens.

Of the Strangers.

Of the Servants.

Seet. 111. Of the Council, or Senate of Five Hundred.

Sect. I. People of Greece in all times very warlike.

Sect. II. Origin and cause of the valour and military virtue of the Lace-

dæmonians and Athenians.

98

Sect. III. Of the different kind of troops which composed the armies of

the Lacedæmonians and Athenians.

101

Sect. IV. Of maritime affairs, fleets, and naval forces.

105

Sect. V. Peculiar character of the Athenians.

110

Sect. VI. Cominon character of the Lacedæmonians and Athenians.

115