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Axiochus of

Plato, or a Dialogue

Of Death, being both short

and very Elegant.

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SI went one day to my common schoole Lynosargus a gymnasium outside the walls of Athens, and being in the waye by Elizeus, I might heare the voice of one calling aloude to me, Socrates. And turning me about to see whence it came, I saw Clinias Axiochus his sonne, together with Damon the Musitian musician & Charmides, the sonne of Glauco running hastily toward Callirrhoe, whereof the one was a Maister and professor of the Arte of Musicke art of music, & the other by means of great familiarity & acquaintance, did both loue him, and also was of him beloued; whereupon I thought good, leauing my ready way, to go meet them, that I might the sooner vnderstand his meaning. Then Clinias bursting out in teares, O