" You may bury me as you choose, if you can only catch me. But 

 you will not understand me when I tell you that I, Socrates, who am 

 now speaking, shall not remain with you after having drunk the poison, 

 but shall depart to some of the enjoyments of the blest. You must not 

 talk about burying or burning Socrates, as if I were suffering some 

 terrible operation. Such language is inauspicious and depressing to 

 our minds. Keep up your courage and talk only of burying the body 

 of Socrates ; conduct the burial as you think best, and most decent." 

 Plato, Pha>don,p. 115, C.D, ; Crete's Plato, vol. II., p. 193- 



