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The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
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Title: The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
Author: Xenophon
Editor: Henry Morley
Release Date: January 10, 2006 [eBook #17490]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MEMORABLE THOUGHTS OF SOCRATES***
Transcribed from the 1889 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE MEMORABLE THOUGHTS OF SOCRATES. BY XENOPHON.
TRANSLATED BY EDWARD BYSSHE.
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE. 1888.
INTRODUCTION.
This translation of Xenophon's "Memorabilia of Socrates" was first published in 1712, and is here printed from the revised edition of 1722. Its author was Edward Bysshe, who had produced in 1702 "The Art of English Poetry," a well-known work that was near its fifth edition when its author published his translation of the "Memorabilia." This was a translation that remained in good repute. There was another edition of it in 1758. Bysshe translated the title of the book into "The Memorable Things of Socrates." I have changed "Things" into "Thoughts," for whether th