The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians . dayafter that ceremony began, it was necelTary to deferthe execution of it for thirty days, during the conti-nuance of this voyage. In this long interval, death had fafficient oppor-tunity to prefent itfelf before his eyes in all its terrors,and to put his conftancy to the proof, not only by thefevere rigour of a dungeon, and the irons upon his legs,,but by the continual profped; and cruel expectation ofan event, of which nature is always abhorrent, {p) Inthis fad condit
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians . dayafter that ceremony began, it was necelTary to deferthe execution of it for thirty days, during the conti-nuance of this voyage. In this long interval, death had fafficient oppor-tunity to prefent itfelf before his eyes in all its terrors,and to put his conftancy to the proof, not only by thefevere rigour of a dungeon, and the irons upon his legs,,but by the continual profped; and cruel expectation ofan event, of which nature is always abhorrent, {p) Inthis fad condition he did not ceafe to enjoy that pro-found tranquillity of mind, which his friends had always. (/>) Plat. \\\ Criton. * Socrates eodem illo vultu, quo Socrates erat. Senet. in Con- quo aliquando foliis triginta ty- fol. ad Helx-ei. c. in ordinem rsdegerat, Socrates carcerem intrando carcerem intraxit, ignoniiniain piirgavir, omnique honeftiorcin- ipfi loco detra6lurus. Neque luria reddidit, M ds keai,. enim poterat career videii, in c- xxv;j. /•.//.. .^/.„././ >>/.• fi/nc-eJiiy^ ^S^. B .-r^vtUt ino tedel. ,tBiu sfculp PERSIANS AND GRECIANS. 469 always admired in him. He entertained them fame temper he had always exprefled, and Crito^^*^°**obferves, that the evening before his death, he fleptas peaceably as at any other time. He compofed alioan hymn in honour of Apollo and Diana, and turnedone of iEfops fables into verfe. The day before, or the fame day that the fhip wasto arrive from Delos, the return of which was to befollowed by the death of Socrates, Crito, his intimate friend, came to him early in the morning, to let himknow that bad news, and at the fame time, that itdepended only upon himfelf to quit the prifon \ thatthe jailer v/as gained; that he would find the doorsopen, and offered him a fafe retreat in ThefTaly. So-crates laughed at this propofal, and afked him, ijohethcrhe kneix) any place out of Attica^ johere
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