He was born, according to Apollodorus in his Chronology, in the archonship of Apsephion, in the fourth year of the 77th Olympiad,* on the 6th day of the month of Thargelion, when the Athenians purify their city, which according to the Delians is the birthday of Artemis. He died in the first year of the 95th Olympiad ° at the age of seventy. With this Demetrius of Phalerum agrees ; but some say he was sixty when he died. Both were pupils of Anaxagoras, I mean Socrates and Euripides, who was born in the first year of the 75th Olympiad in the archonship of Calliades.¢ In my opinion Socrates discoursed on physics as well as on ethics, since he holds some conversations about providence, even according to Xenophon, who, however, declares that he only discussed ethics. But Plato, after mentioning Anaxagoras and certain other physicists in the Apology,4 treats for his own part themes which Socrates disowned, although he puts everything into the mouth of Socrates. Aristotle relates that a magician came from Syria to Athens and, among other evils with which he threatened Socrates, predicted that he would come to a violent end. I have written verses about him too, as follows @: Drink then, being in Zeus’s palace, O Socrates ; for truly did the god pronounce thee wise, being wisdom himself ; for when thou didst frankly take the hemlock at the hands of the Athenians, they themselves drained it as it passed thy lips. He was sharply criticized, according to Aristotle