404 Prof. Curistison on the Poisonous Properties of Hemlock, 
when he was condemned to die, and was drinking the Kaveoy, it 
is said he tossed away what remained, exclaiming, &c.* In like 
manner the orator Lysz4s observes, in his oration against Era- 
TOSTHENES, who had put his brother PoLemarcuvs to death: 
“ The thirty despatched to Potemarcuus their customary order 
to drink Kayem.”+ About the middle of the second century of 
the Christian era, we find Diocenrs Larrrius following these 
authorities, when he mentions the death of Socrates. “SocraTEs 
imprisoned,” observes he, “ after a few days drank the Kavesoy, 
discoursing many beautiful and good things, which Piaro has 
given in his Phaedo.”{ The same assumption is made by Priny 
between six and seven centuries later. “The cicuta,” says he, 
“is a poison, abhorred because the instrument of public punish- 
ment among the Athenians, yet applicable to many purposes 
which are not to be omitted.”§ 
It is, nevertheless, not a little singular, that no mention is 
made of the Kaye as the state-poison of the Athenians by an 
author in natural history, who flourished at a time when the 
memory of the death of Socrates, Puocron, and many other 
eminent individuals, must have been fresh in the minds of all 
philosophers, and who nevertheless mentions both the plant and 
its poisonous qualities,—I mean Tuzornrasrus. 'THeoruRas- 
tus was born but twenty-eight years after the death of SocraTEs, 
namely, 371 years before Curist, and was ArIsTOTLE’s successor 
* Kes emer yt amobvycxesy chycerycel opnevos To KUVELOY EMS, TO AEtmropecvoy uray amonorraBiouvre 
ameiy cvrove Keurie tatecta to) xaaw. SMenophontis Hist. Gree. ii. 3. 24. Tom. iii. 103. Edit. 
Dodwell, 1770 Oxon. 
T TMorcuceeya de moaenyyarcy Oo TesanovTe To er exetvay beoecevoy Toegaryryenric, Thvesy xOIVELOV. 
Lysias. Orat. in Eratosthenen. In Orat. Gree. vol. v. p. 394. Editio Reiske. Lipsie 
1772. 
$ Cicuta quoque venenum est publica Atheniensium peena invisa, ad multa tamen usus 
haud omittendi. Plinii Hist. Nat. xxv. 95. 
§ Laxeuras De Dcbers, mer & woAAas nuseas ERLE TO HOVELOV, WOAAC Z~LAG x ayebe ducer HGiks, oe Trwrwy 
2) tT Doda Pro. Diogenes Laertius. Editio Meibomii. Amstelod. I. ii. 42. Vol. i. 105. 
