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Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates)

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Four books that begin by refuting one by one the charges of impiety and corruption of the young, and go on to dozens of short conversations: Socrates advises his son Lamprocles to be patient with Xanthippe, talks with the sophist Antiphon about poverty, with Aristippus about self-mastery, with craftsmen and generals about their trades. It is the portrait of a practical and pious teacher and the second great source on Socrates alongside Plato.

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Translated by Henry Graham Dakyns · 34 chapters · 5 h reading

  1. 1Translated by H. G. Dakyns1′
  2. 2BOOK I10′
  3. 3II25′
  4. 4III7′
  5. 5IV12′
  6. 6VI7′
  7. 7VII2′
  8. 8BOOK II20′
  9. 9II7′
  10. 10III7′
  11. 11IV5′
  12. 12VI16′
  13. 13VII8′
  14. 14VIII2′
  15. 15IX5′
  16. 16BOOK III5′
  17. 17II2′
  18. 18III6′
  19. 19IV17′
  20. 20VI8′
  21. 21VII4′
  22. 22VIII5′
  23. 23IX16′
  24. 24XI8′
  25. 25XII4′
  26. 26XII3′
  27. 27XIV5′
  28. 28BOOK IV4′
  29. 29II24′
  30. 30III11′
  31. 31IV22′
  32. 32VI14′
  33. 33VII7′
  34. 34VIII7′
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