The Economist

<p>Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. </p><p> </p><p>He marched with the Spartans and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus where he lived for many years before having to move once more to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.                      </p><p> </p><p>The Economist records Socrates and Critobulus in a talk about profitable estate management and a lengthy recollection by Socrates of Ischomachus' discussion of the same topic.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>INTERLOCUTORS </p><p> </p><p>Socrates and Critobulus </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At Chapter VII. a prior discussion held between Socrates and Ischomachus is introduced: On the life of a beautiful and good man. In these chapters (vii.-xxi.) </p><p> </p><p>Socrates is represented by the author as repeating for the benefit of Critobulus and the rest certain conversations which he had once held with the beautiful and good Ischomachus on the essentials of economy. </p><p> </p><p>It was a tete-a-tete discussion and in the original Greek the remarks of the two speakers are denoted by such phrases as {ephe o 'Iskhomakhos-ephen egio}-said (he) Ischomachus said I. (Socrates) To save the repetition of expressions tedious in English I have whenever it seemed help to do so ventured to throw parts of the reported conversations into dramatic form inserting Isch. </p><p> </p><p>Soc. in the customary way to designate the speakers; but these it must be borne in mind are merely asides to the reader who will not forget that Socrates is the narrator throughout-speaking of himself as I and of Ischomachus as he or by his name.</p>