On Two Pai<sages in the Crito. SS"- 



your will." . . . W. S. Tyler, Prof essor of Greek at Amherst, 

 in his edition of 1876, adopts this rendering and explains it to 

 mean: "I am exceedingly desirous to pursue the course I am 

 pursuing wifh your consent and not against your wilV' In a 

 later edition, which was prepared with the assistance of Pro- 

 fessor H. M. Tyler, he reads -ziaaq, ai, in accordance with the 

 emendation given just below, and renders: "As I esieem it of 

 great importance to do this with your consent." . . . Butt- 

 mann amended to rsiVa? (ts and the emendation has been accepted 

 by a number of scholars. The meaning, of course, being that 

 just given. . . . Goebel suggests that the reading should be 

 -(vjffat (7=:, ' I am anxious to stop you,' /. c, from bringing forward 

 the same old arguments. . . . Meiser proposes a change of 



order; -ilnni at^ alh). ij.ri clxo'^Toq raura -paTzs'.^. . . . ProfesSOr 



Dyer, of Harvard, in his edition based on that of Cron, adopts 

 the emendation of Buttman as Tyler does in his latter edition. 

 . "Wagner reads -ziaa-, "with your approval," and puts 

 it as antithetical with a/.m-zoQ, "without your approval." 



Before considering these various renderings it may be well 

 to have the rest of the passage translated that the meaning of 

 the whole may be before us. Jowett's rendering, which with 

 the exception of the last clause, can hardly be improved upon, 

 is as follows: "Let us consider the matter together, and do 

 you either refute me if you can, and I will be convinced; or else 

 cease, mj^ dear friend, from repeating to me that I ought to 

 escape against the wishes of the Athenians: for" etc., as above. 



The position of Schleiermacker, which is followed by Jowett 

 and others, is met by Professor W. S. Tyler in his old edition, 

 where he says: "But besides the improbability of -tiaat being 

 foUoiced by its subject, and omitting its object, it does not 

 accord with the sentiments and character of Socrates that he 

 should say, I deem it of great importance that you should per- 

 suade me to leave the prison, which would then be the meaning 

 of the passage." This may be regarded as a sufficient answer 

 to this rendering. . . . The emendation of Buttmann may 



