| καὶ τοῦτο μὲν οὐκ ἀγνοῶ, ὅτι ταῦτα ἀποφθέγματα οὐκ ἀξιόλογα, ἐκεῖνο δὲ κρίνω τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀγαστόν, τὸ τοῦ θανάτου παρεστηκότος μήτε τὸ φρόνιμον μήτε τὸ παιγνιῶδες ἀπολιπεῖν ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς. |
| And I am not unaware that these phrases are hardly worth recording, but I do consider it admirable in the man that he did not lose his good sense or playfulness at the point of death. |
| Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.56 (309) |
| ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἦλθον καὶ δεδειπνηκότες ἦμεν καὶ ἐμέλλομεν ἀναπαύεσθαι, τότε μοι ἁδελφὸς λέγει ὅτι ἥκει Πρωταγόρας. |
| When I had come back and we had dined and we were about to turn in, it was then that my brother told me that Protagoras had arrived. |
| Plato Protagoras 310c (557) |
| ἔδοξε δέ μοι, ὦ ἄνδρες, τὸ πρόσωπον ἐψιμυθιῶσθαι, τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ τεθνεῶτος οὔπω τριάκονθʼ ἡμέρας· |
| But it struck me, sirs, that she had powdered her face, though her brother had died not thirty days before; |
| Lysias 1.14 (568) |
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