Axiochus.
high loft onely ouerlooked the troubles and tempeſts of the common-wealth, but we know the ſame more aſſuredly, hauing made proofe therefore in ourſelues, for the common people indeede our freends Socrates is vnthankefull, diſdainefull, cruell, enuious, and vnlearned, as that is gathered together of the ſcumme and dregs of the raſcall route, and a ſorte of idle loſels: whome hee that flattereth and feedeth is much worſe himſelfe than they.
Socrates.
Since therefore O Axiochus, thou dooſt ſo greatly diſallow that opinion, which of all other, is counted moſt honeſt and liberall; what ſhall we iudge of the other trades of life? ſhall wee not thinke that they are likewiſe to bee ſhunned: I remember that I once heard Prodicus ſay; that death pertayneth neither to the liuing nor to the dead.
Axiochus.
How meane you that, Socrates?
Socrates.
Mary thus; that death toucheth not them that are, as for thoſe that are departed out
