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'''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 {{#lemma: †Μνησίλοχος† | Μνησίλοχος M (cf. [[Origins and Life of Euripides Ia|''Genos'' Ia.3]]) : Τηλεκλείδης edd. (cf. Telecl., fr. 41 K.-A.)}} οὕτω φησί· 

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{{#lemma: Φρύγες ἐστὶ καινὸν δρᾶμα τοῦτ’ Εὐριπίδηι,<br>
ὧι καὶ Σωκράτης τὰ φρύγανα ὑποτίθησι†,<br> | The passage requiring emendation appears in T1 1a Kannicht, of which this text is clearly a corruption.}}
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καὶ {{#lemma: πάλιν | Telecl. fr. 42 K.-A.}}·

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	{{#lemma: Εὐριπίδης (…) σωκρατογόμφους | Εὐριπίδης σωκρατογόμφους m : Εὐριπίδης σωκρατογόμφοις m : Εὐριπίδης ⟨ὁ⟩ σωκρατογόμφος Casaubon : Εὐριπίδας ⟨τοὺς⟩ Σωκρατογόμφους Kaibel : ευριπιδοσωκρατογόμφους Fritsche}}. 
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καὶ {{#lemma: Καλλίας | Fr. 15 K.-A.}} Πεδήταις·

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	Α. {{#lemma: τί δὴ | τί δὴ Runkel, Dindorf : ἤδη M}} σὺ σεμνὴ καὶ φρονεῖς οὕτω μέγα;<br>
	Β. &nbsp;ἔξεστι γάρ μοι· Σωκράτης γὰρ αἴτιος.<br>
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{{#lemma: Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις | Fr. 392 K.-A.}}·

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	{{#lemma: Εὐριπίδηι | Εὐριπίδηι Cobet : Εὐριπίδης m : Εὐριπείδης m : Εὐριπίδου Valckenaer}} δ’ ὁ τὰς τραγωιδίας ποιῶν<br>
	τὰς περιλαλούσας οὗτός ἐστι, τὰς σοφάς.<br>
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'''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:
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This new play by Euripides is the ''Phrygians'',<br> 
and Socrates lays the firewood beneath it.
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And again:
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	Euripides…Socratic bolts. 
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And Callias in the ''Prisoners'':
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A.	Why are you so haughty and acting so supercilious?<br> 
B.	Because I can. Socrates is the reason.
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Aristophanes in the ''Clouds'' says:
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This is the one who composes those very chatty tragedies for Euripides, the clever ones.
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'''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 {{#lemma: κολυμβητοῦ | εἰς τὸ μὴ ἀποπνιγῆναι ἐν αὐτῶι post κολυμβητοῦ ''Suda''}}.” 
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'''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.’
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'''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 {{#lemma: Ἀρίστων | Fr. 29 Wehrli}}, ἐν τῶι {{#lemma: περὶ Σωκράτους | D.L. 2.22}} εἰρήκαμεν. 
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'''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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