1. That is, an out-of-court settlement. Socrates’ old friend Crito is finding himself almost blackmailed, which a large loophole in the Athenian legal system made feasible (see n. 3 below).

2. Possibly the same Archedemus (see Hellenica, 1.7.2) who was a prosecutor of the generals after the battle of Arginusae (see p. 72, n. 2).

3. Under Athenian law any citizen could prosecute any other. If a conviction was gained, the prosecutor might well get a proportion of the fine. Some people, therefore, made a living out of such actions and the out-of-court settlements gained by the threat of them: these people were called ‘sycophants’.