Axiochus.
comminalty, being ſoone after, outcaſt, hiſſed at, condemned, and deliuered to a miſerable death. For where I praye three O Axiochus, (thee I aske that art in office in the commonwealth) dyed that mightie Militiades? where that victorious Themiſtocles? where that valiant Ephialtes? where finally thſe noble kings and glorious Emperours, which not long a goe flouriſhed in the commonwealth. As for my ſelfe, I could neuer be brought to beare office in the Cittie: for I neuer accounted it as a worthie and lawdable thing to be in authority together with the madding multitude.
But Theramenes and Calixenus of late memorie appointing vnder them certaine Magiſtrates condemned certaine guiltleſſe men not hearing their cauſes to vnderſerued death. Onelye withſtood them you, and Triptolemus, of thirty thouſand men which were gathered in the aſſemblie.
Axiochus.
It is as thou ſayeſt Socrates, and ſince that time I haue refrained my ſelfe from the ſtage: neither hath any thing euer to mee ſeemed of greater waighte, then the gouerning of the common-wealth, and that is well knowne to them which are in the ſame office. For thou ſpeakeſt theſe things, as hauing out of ſome
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