Xenophon autem, quod ad Socraticam disciplinam attinet, proximus a Platone felicis ac beatae facundiae gradus, cum sollemne sacrificium perageret, e duobus filiis maiorem natu, nomine Gryllum, apud Mantineam in proelio cecidisse cognovit: nec ideo institutum deorum cultum omittendum putavit, sed tantummodo coronam deponere contentus fuit.
Xenophon, who for abundant and happy eloquence is the next step to Plato so far as the Socratic school is concerned, was conducting a regular sacrifice when he learned that the elder of his two sons, Gryllus by name, had fallen in battle at Mantinea. He did not think that the worship of the gods, already begun, should be left off on that account, but was content merely to doff his garland.
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