...before he passed into a state of insensibility, were : •• Krito, we owe a cock to -£sculapius : discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." > Thus perished the •• parens philosophise," the first of ethical philosophers ; a man who opened to science both new...

...weeping friends. His last words were addressed to Crito : — " Crito, we owe a cock to jEsculapius ;* discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." Thus...Grecian philosophers, whose uninspired wisdom made ths nearest approach to the divine morality of the Gospel. * In allusion to the sacrifice usually offered...

...be presumed to be necessary. SOCRATES. (To a friend, when about to drink the cup of poison:) 'Krito, we owe a cock to ..Esculapius ; discharge the debt and by no means omit it. — Grote. ' I consider the sacrifice of the cock as a more certain evidence of the tranquillity of...

...teacher of the most cultivated city of classical antiquity said to a friend on his death-bed, "Krito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius, discharge the debt, and by no means omit it," Moses had said to his people, "Thou shall have no other gods before me." Eleven hundred years before...

...of insensibility from the hemlock administered to him by the executioner, to pay a similar tribute. "Crito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius: discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." In Constantinople, where his fame had preceded him, he was received with great distinction by the reigning...

...the immortality of the soul, and has been recorded, and probably embellished, in the Pli&do of Plato. With a firm and cheerful countenance he drank the...nearest approach to the divine morality of the Gospel. * In allusion to the sacrifice usually offered by sick persons to that duity on their recovery. Bust...

...words, addressed 1o Krito immediately before he passed into a state of insensibility, were : " Krito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius : discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." ' Thus perished the " parens philosophic," the first of ethical philosophers ; a man who opened to science both new matter,...

...cup of hemlock, and bade farewell to his sorrowing friends, addressing to Crito the famous words, ' Crito, we owe a cock to Esculapius ; discharge the debt, and by no means omit it.' Thus perished, in his seventieth year, the greatest of heathen philosophers, and thus it is too often that the world...

...Crito : — " Crito, we owe a cock to vEsculapius ;* discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." Tims perished the greatest and most original of the Grecian...nearest approach to the divine morality of the Gospel. * In allusion to the sacrifice usually offered by sick persons to that deitj- on their recovery. Bust...

...weeping friends. His last words were addressed to Crito: — " Crito, we owe a cock to JEsculapius ; * discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." Thus...the nearest approach to the divine morality of the Gospel.f * In allusion to the sacrifice usually offered by sick persons to that deity on their recovery....