she was assigned by the Athenians the same daily allowance of food as is bestowed upon the victors in the Olympian games.  But Demetrius of Phalerum, Hieronymus of Rhodes, Aristoxenus the musician, and Aristotle, (if we are to believe the ‘Treatise on Nobility’ to be a genuine work of his) say, that Myrto, the granddaughter of Aristeides, lived in the house of Sokrates the philosopher, who was indeed married to another woman, but who took her into his house because she was a widow and destitute of the necessaries of life.  These authors are sufficiently confuted by Panaetius in his writings on Sokrates.  Demetrius of Phalerum says, in his book about Sokrates, that he knew one Lysimachus, a very poor man, who dwelt near the Temple of Iacchus and made his living by the interpretation of dreams.  Demetrius further states that he carried a bill before the Assembly by which this man’s mother and sister were provided with a pension of three obols daily at the public expense.  Demetrius, however, when himself a legislator, appointed that each of these women should receive a drachma instead of three obols a day.  And we need not wonder at the people taking such care of the resident citizens, when we read that, hearing that the granddaughter of Aristogeiton was living in poverty at Lemnos, so poor that no one would marry her, they brought her back to Athens, gave her in marriage to a man of high birth, and bestowed upon her a farm at Potamus for a marriage portion.  The city of Athens has shown many instances of this kindness and goodness of heart even down to our times, and is justly praised and admired for it.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 17:  The Attic medimnus contained 12 imperial gallons, or 11/2 bushels.]

[Footnote 18:  A circular or cyclic chorus was strictly one which danced and sang round an altar, but especially refers to the dithyrambic choruses appropriated to Bacchus.]

[Footnote 19:  The barathrum at Athens was a deep pit, with hooks on the sides, into which criminals were cast.]

[Footnote 20:  Alluding to the letter which he had sent to Xerxes.  See ‘Life of Themistokles.’]

[Footnote 21:  See ‘Life of Themistokles.’]

[Footnote 22:  So in Latin “hostis” originally meant both a stranger and an enemy.]

[Footnote 23:  These men traced their descent to the Homeric Ajax.]

[Footnote 24:  This was always given before the equal division of the plunder took place. Cf.  Virg.  AEn.  IX. 268, sqq.]

[Footnote 25:  Whether a cinerary urn for the ashes of the dead, or a water-pot for drawing water is meant, I am unable to determine.  Clough takes the latter meaning, which is borne out by the context.  On the other hand the Greek word is used by Plutarch (’Life of Philopoemen,’ ch. xxi) in the sense of an urn to contain the ashes of the dead.]

LIFE OF MARCUS CATO.