The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . to heights sometimesof 4,500 feet; plateaus almost destitute of vege-tation, fertile valleys, and coast lands. Theclimate is warm and salubrious. The finest aloesof the world are grown here; also dates. Live-stock raising is an important industry. The peo-ple are a mixed race (negro, Arab and Indian),but present two distinct types. In 1876 the Eng-lish government entered into a treaty with theruling sultan, declaring a suzerainty, and in1886
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . to heights sometimesof 4,500 feet; plateaus almost destitute of vege-tation, fertile valleys, and coast lands. Theclimate is warm and salubrious. The finest aloesof the world are grown here; also dates. Live-stock raising is an important industry. The peo-ple are a mixed race (negro, Arab and Indian),but present two distinct types. In 1876 the Eng-lish government entered into a treaty with theruling sultan, declaring a suzerainty, and in1886 annexed the island. English and Germanexpeditions have investigated its natural is the principal town. Pop. (est.)4,000. Socrates, sokra-tez, Greek philosopher: , in 469 ; d. 399 His father,Sophroniscus, was a sculptor, and Socrates him-self followed this occupation for a time. Hismother, Phsenarete, was a mid-wife. In his youthhe received the education prescribed by the laws,and also made himself acquainted with geometryand astronomy. That he had listened to or Archelaus is only reported by antrust-. .siiC-RATl-.: SOCRATES worthy authorities; Plato accounts for his mas-ters acquaintance with the works of the formerby supposing that he had read the work writtenby that philosopher. According to Xenophon hewas familiar with the doctrines of other naturalphilosophers, although he did not accept represents Socrates as saying that, w-hilestill very young, he met Parmenides, the mostimportant of the Eleatic philosophers, who wasthen advanced in years, as the latter was ex-pounding his doctrines. A material influence onhis philosophical development was exercised bythe Sophists, to whose discourses he occasionallylistened, and with whom he frequently enteredinto conversation. Excepting in connection withhis philosophical career, only a few circumstancesof his life are known. He served as a hopliteor heavily armed soldier in the
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