Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 2.18, 2.22, 9.11
1 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 2.18 (Socrates) = T 51 Kannicht
Σωκράτης Σωφρονίσκου μὲν ἦν υἱὸς λιθουργοῦ καὶ Φαιναρέτης μαίας, ὡς καὶ Πλάτων ἐν Θεαιτήτωι φησίν, Ἀθηναῖος, τῶν δήμων Ἀλωπεκῆθεν. ἐδόκει δὲ συμποιεῖν Εὐριπίδηι· ὅθεν †Μνησίλοχος† Μνησίλοχος M (cf. Genos Ia.3) : Τηλεκλείδης edd. (cf. Telecl., fr. 41 K.-A.) οὕτω φησί·
Φρύγες ἐστὶ καινὸν δρᾶμα τοῦτ’ Εὐριπίδηι,
ὧι καὶ Σωκράτης τὰ φρύγανα ὑποτίθησι†,
The passage requiring emendation appears in T1 1a Kannicht, of which this text is clearly a corruption.
καὶ πάλιν Telecl. fr. 42 K.-A.·
Εὐριπίδης (…) σωκρατογόμφους Εὐριπίδης σωκρατογόμφους m : Εὐριπίδης σωκρατογόμφοις m : Εὐριπίδης ⟨ὁ⟩ σωκρατογόμφος Casaubon : Εὐριπίδας ⟨τοὺς⟩ Σωκρατογόμφους Kaibel : ευριπιδοσωκρατογόμφους Fritsche.
καὶ Καλλίας Fr. 15 K.-A. Πεδήταις·
Α. τί δὴ τί δὴ Runkel, Dindorf : ἤδη M σὺ σεμνὴ καὶ φρονεῖς οὕτω μέγα;
Β. ἔξεστι γάρ μοι· Σωκράτης γὰρ αἴτιος.
Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις Fr. 392 K.-A.·
Εὐριπίδηι Εὐριπίδηι Cobet : Εὐριπίδης m : Εὐριπείδης m : Εὐριπίδου Valckenaer δ’ ὁ τὰς τραγωιδίας ποιῶν
τὰς περιλαλούσας οὗτός ἐστι, τὰς σοφάς.
1 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 2.18 (Socrates) = T 51 Kannicht
Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus the stone-worker and Phainarete the midwife, as Plato also says in the Theaetetus, an Athenian, from the deme Alopeke. He seems to have composed poetry with Euripides, as a result of which, Mnesilochus says:
This new play by Euripides is the Phrygians,
and Socrates lays the firewood beneath it.
And again:
Euripides…Socratic bolts.
And Callias in the Prisoners:
A. Why are you so haughty and acting so supercilious?
B. Because I can. Socrates is the reason.
Aristophanes in the Clouds says:
This is the one who composes those very chatty tragedies for Euripides, the clever ones.
2 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 2.22 (Socrates) = 46a Kannicht
φασὶ δ’ Εὐριπίδην αὐτῶι δόντα τὸ Ἡρακλείτου σύγγραμμα ἐρέσθαι· “τί δοκεῖ;” τὸν δὲ φάναι· “ἃ μὲν συνῆκα, γενναῖα· οἶμαι δὲ καὶ ἃ μὴ συνῆκα· πλὴν Δηλίου γέ τινος δεῖται κολυμβητοῦ εἰς τὸ μὴ ἀποπνιγῆναι ἐν αὐτῶι post κολυμβητοῦ Suda.”
2 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 2.22 (Socrates) = 46a Kannicht
They say that when Euripides gave him the treatise of Heraclitus, he asked, ‘What do you think of it?’ and Socrates replied, ‘What I have understood is high-minded. And I think that what I have not understood is also high-minded. Except that it requires some Delian diver to make sense of it.’
3 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 9.11 (Heraclitus) = 46a Kannicht
τὰ δὲ περὶ Σωκράτους καὶ ὅσα ἐντυχὼν τῶι συγγράμματι εἴποι κομίσαντος Εὐριπίδου καθά φησιν Ἀρίστων Fr. 29 Wehrli, ἐν τῶι περὶ Σωκράτους D.L. 2.22 εἰρήκαμεν.
3 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 9.11 (Heraclitus) = 46a Kannicht
The things told about Socrates and what, according to Ariston, he said when he encountered the treatise which Euripides gave him, we have spoken about in the On Socrates.
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