1. These were types of impressive ‘dance’ for entertainment. For the first, knives were setupright in a circle in the ground and a dancer went head first into the circle and sprang outover the knives using the hands (see Xenophon, Symposium 2.11). The second is undocumentedin detail, but is mentioned also at Xenophon, Symposium 7.2.

2. Socrates’ ignorance, of course, refutes the hypothesis of omniscience.

3. Euthydemus objects to Socrates’ introduction of ‘soul’ (psuchē) not just on principle but, arguably, because the common Greek view was that psuchē, the life-force, is simply what enlivens a living body, in which case Euthydemus could not argue for prenatal knowledge. Ironically, however, Socrates’ own theory of recollection requires that psuchē should haveprenatal knowledge.