should take pains to make the block of marble into a perfect likeness of a man, and should take no pains about themselves lest they should turn out mere blocks, not men. He recommended to the young the constant use of the mirror, to the end that handsome men might acquire a corresponding behaviour, and ugly men conceal their defects by education. He had invited some rich men and, when Xanthippe said she felt ashamed of the dinner, ‘‘ Never mind,” said he, “ for if they are reasonable they will put up with it, and if they are good for nothing, we shall not trouble ourselves about them.” He would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live. Of the mass of men who do not count he said it was as if some one should object to a single tetradrachm as counterfeit and at the same time let a whole heap made up of just such pieces pass as genuine. Aeschines said to him, “ I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself,” and Socrates answered, “ Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?” To one who complained that he was overlooked when the Thirty rose to power, he said, “ You are not sorry for that, are you?” To one who said, “ You are condemned by the Athenians to die,’ he made answer, “So are they, by nature.” But some ascribe this to Anaxagoras. When his wife said, “ You suffer unjustly,” he retorted, ‘‘ Why, would you have me suffer justly ?’’ He had a dream that some one said to him ?: On the third day thou shalt come to the fertile fields of Phthia ; and he told Aeschines, “‘ On the third day I shall die.” ® When he was about to drink the hemlock,