For this reason I was entirely
uninfluenced by any feeling of pity, as would seem likely to be the case
with one present on so mournful an occasion; nor was I affected by
pleasure from being engaged in philosophical discussions, as was our
custom; for our conversation was of that kind. But an altogether
unaccountable feeling possessed me, a kind of unusual mixture compounded
of pleasure and pain together, when I considered that he was immediately
about to die. And all of us who were present were affected in much the
same manner, at one time laughing, at another weeping one of us
especially, Apollodorus, for you know the man and his manner.
_Ech._ How should I not?
_Phaed._ He, then, was entirely overcome by these emotions; and I too was
troubled, as well as the others.
_Ech._ But who were present, Phaedo?
_Phaed._ Of his fellow-countrymen, this Apollodorus was present, and
Critobulus, and his father Crito, moreover Hermogenes, Epigenes,
AEschines, and Antisthenes; Ctesippus the Paeanian, Menexenus, and some
other of his countrymen were also there: Plato I think was sick.
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