 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 756 pages
...words were addressed to Crito : — " Crito, we owe a cock to jEsculapius ;* discharge the debt, andby no means omit it." Thus perished the greatest and...nearest approach to the divine morality of the Gospel. * In allusion to the sacrifice usually olTorcd by sick persons to that deity on their recovery. The... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 302 pages
...Chesterfield of Socrates, who, just before he passed into a state of insensibility, said : — ' Krito, we owe a cock to .(Esculapius ; discharge the debt, and by no means omit it.* 3 Francis Atterbury, Pope's ' mitred Rochester,' who in 1722 was sent to the Tower on a charge of treasonable... | |
 | Edward Slack - 1893 - 208 pages
...and cheerfully met his fate amid his sorrowing friends. Nor were his last words of himself : — " Crito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius ; discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." So Julius Caesar, when mortally wounded, said : " Et tu, Brute." Such men as these think nothing of... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1899 - 530 pages
...words, addressed lo 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 philosophise," the first of ethical philosophers ; a man who opened to science both new matter,... | |
 | William Smith - Art, Greek - 1900 - 652 pages
...immortality of the soul. His last words were addressed to Crito : " Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius ; * discharge the debt, and by no means omit it." Thus perished the greatest and most original of the Greek philosophers, whose uninspired wisdom made the nearest approach to the divine morality of the... | |
 | Emily Toth, Per Seyersted - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 366 pages
...Ferrar — Bishop of St. Davids ChasV Raleigh Cromwell Pope When about to take his last drink. "Krito, we owe a cock to /Esculapius; discharge the debt and by no means omit it." "I have saved the bird in my bosom." — Fighting for Henry VI when mortally wounded, in reference... | |
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Pli&do of Plato. With a firm and cheerful countenance he drank the cup of hemlock amidst his sorrowing and weeping friends. His last words were addressed to Crito : — " Crito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius ;* discharge the debt, and by no means omit... 
