CHAPTER XXVI.

MEMORABILIA.

Hold in readiness for every need, these--

"Lead me, O Zeus, and thou, Destiny, whithersoever ye have appointed me to go, and may I follow fearlessly. But if in an evil mind I be unwilling, still must I follow."

"That man is wise among us, and hath understanding of things divine, who hath nobly agreed with Necessity."

But the third also--

"O Crito, if so it seem good to the Gods so let it be. Anytus and Meletus are able to kill me indeed, but to harm me, never."[1]

THE END.

NOTES.

CLEANTHES HYMN TO ZEUS.

[1] Professor Mahaffy, in his _Greek Life and Thought_, quotes the full text of this noble Hymn, which, he thinks, "would alone redeem the Hellenistic age, as it stands before us, from the charge of mere artificiality and pedantry."

[2] [Greek: iês mimêma lachontes mounon]. This is Zeller's reading, but not Professor Mahaffy's, who has [Greek: henos mimêma].

NOTES.