them spend the whole time in mirth and laughter.
I will also relate unto you what famous men I saw in that association. There were all the demigods, and all that fought against Troy, excepting Ajax ** This Ajax, when Troy was taken, ravished Cassandra the daughter of Priamus, being a virgin and priest to Minerva in the temple of Pallas, for which the goddess sent a tempest which dispersed the navy of the Grecians as they returned, and sunk Ajax with a thunderbolt. the Locrian: he only, they told me, was tormented in the region of the unrighteous. Of barbarians there was the elder and the younger Cyrus, and Anacharsis †† The only wise man among the Scythians, who, endeavouring to bring in the Athenian laws amongst his barbarous countrymen, was slain by the king, his brother. Laert. the Scythian, Zamolxis ‡‡ Scholar and servant to Pythagoras. the Thracian, and Numa §§ The second Roman king. the Italian. There was also Lycurgus |||| Lawgiver to the Lacedæmonians. Plutarch. the Lacedæmonian, and Phocion and Tellus the Athenians, ¶¶ Two wise men of Athens that professed poverty. Plutarch. and all the Wise Men, unless it were Periander. **** Who was King of Corinth and a tyrant.
I also saw Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, prattling with Nestor and Palamedes, †††† Necrom. r. and close by him stood Hyacinthus the