sentences:  Menexenus is not to be confused with the character of the same name who appears in Plato's dialogues "Menexenus" and "Lysis".Socrates' sons Menexenus and Sophroniscus were still children at the time of their father's trial and death, one of them small enough to be held in his mother's arms.As there was an ancient Greek tradition of naming the first son after his grandfather, Menexenus was probably the youngest of the three.