1. See pp. 34–5. Both Plato’s Apology of Socrates and especially Xenophon’s (pp. 41–9), of which there are verbal echoes, are worth comparing with this chapter.

2. See p. 142, n. 1. As a matter of fact, however, it was the return of the annual Athenian mission to Delos which delayed his death, not the quinquennial festival, as Xenophon here suggests. See also Plato, Crito, 43c-d, Phaedo, 58a-c.