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-Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, [1948]+Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. A complete translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker by Kathleen Freeman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press [1948] This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. The chapters are numbered as in the Fifth Edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. The numbers in brackets are those of the Fourth Edition. 
  
-====== 88. CRITIAS OF ATHENS ======+====== Critias of Athens: Fragments ======
  
 Critias of Athens lived from about 480 B.C. to 403 B.C. Critias of Athens lived from about 480 B.C. to 403 B.C.
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 8. (I would wish for) the wealth of the Scopadae, the magnanimity of Cimon, the victories of Arcesilas of Sparta. 8. (I would wish for) the wealth of the Scopadae, the magnanimity of Cimon, the victories of Arcesilas of Sparta.
  
-9. More men are good through habit than through character. 1+9. More men are good through habit than through character.((Cp. Democritus, Frg. 242.))
  
-Plays 2+Plays((See Companion, pp. 411-52, for reasons for attributing these plays to Critias.))
  
 10. (Of the plays attributed to Euripides, three are spurious: 'Tennês', 'Rhadamanthys', 'Peirithôus'). 10. (Of the plays attributed to Euripides, three are spurious: 'Tennês', 'Rhadamanthys', 'Peirithôus').
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 23. Is it not better not to live than to live miserably? 23. Is it not better not to live than to live miserably?
  
-24. (Usually attributed to Euripides) 1+24. (Usually attributed to Euripides)((Attribution to Critias by Welcker and Wilamowitz; the latter gives to Critias Eur. Frg. inc. 964 also (Vors. Vol. II, 14, 5). 
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 Fame reveals the good man even in the hollows of the earth. No, but Hades received me when still living. Aphidnus, son of Earth who has no mother. Fame reveals the good man even in the hollows of the earth. No, but Hades received me when still living. Aphidnus, son of Earth who has no mother.
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 75. (Plato, Republic 368A: 'Glaucon's admirer', who wrote elegiac verses in praise of 'the sons of Ariston', may be Critias). Footnotes 75. (Plato, Republic 368A: 'Glaucon's admirer', who wrote elegiac verses in praise of 'the sons of Ariston', may be Critias). Footnotes
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-155:1 Cp. Democritus, Frg. 242. 
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-155:2 See Companion, pp. 411-52, for reasons for attributing these plays to Critias. 
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-157:1 Attribution to Critias by Welcker and Wilamowitz; the latter gives to Critias Eur. Frg. inc. 964 also (Vors. Vol. II, 14, 5). 
  
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