ΑΠΟΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΥΜΑΤΑ, XENOPHON'S MEMORABILIA OF SOCRATES, WITH ENGLISH NOTES, BY ALPHEUS S. PACKARD, PROF. OF RHETORIC AND ORATORY AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE, Third Edition. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY MARK H. NEWMAN. 199 Broadway. HARVARD Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York. ANDOVER: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, Printers. PREFACE. THE Editor has endeavored to supply what he has for some time deemed a desideratum in our course of liberal study. As affording an introduction to the Greek Philosophy and Morals, no one of the Greek Classics is more valuable to the student than the Memorabilia of Xenophon; while at the same time, on account of the matchless simplicity and elegance of its style and the variety and spirit of its matter, no one is more attractive. It will be found particularly useful to students in Theology or to those who expect to become such, exhibiting, as it does, with so much clearness and fidelity, the sentiments and opinions of one whose life and character was a light shining in the midst of darkness, and also bringing under review the philosophy and morals of the most enlightened period of the pagan world. In his part of the labor the Editor has availed himself without scruple of all the aids which he could command, and has endeavored to meet what he supposes to be the wants of students in general, being guided, particularly in his attempts to exhibit the ideas which prevailed on philosophical subjects in the age of Socrates, somewhat by his recollections of his own difficulties when he himself was a pupil. As it regards the grammatical notes and comments he has sought to excite the pupil to observe and to inquire for himself, rather than to relieve him from the necessity of labor. The Editor makes no pretensions in respect to the text. He has made the edition of Xenophon in the Bibliotheca Classica published by Weigelius at Leipsic in 1819 under the superintendence of G. H. Schaefer, Prof. of Philosophy in the |