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the feet upwards, gradually grew cold and stiff. His last words were, "Crito, we owe a cock to Æsculapius: pay it, therefore, and do not neglect it."

"This," concludes Phædo, "ws, the end of our friend, a man, as we may say, the best of all his time that we have known, and moreover, the most wise and just."