The ramĕnes

, an A then i an philosopher and general in the age of Alcibiades. His father’s name was Agnon. He was one of the 30 tyrants of Athens, but he had no share in the cruelties and oppre ion which disgraced their administration. He was accused by Critias, one of his colleagues, because he opposed their views, and he was condemned to drink hemlock, though defended by his own innocence, and the friendly interce ion of the philosopher So crates. He drank the poison with great composure, and poured some of it on the ground, with the sarcastical exclamation of, “This is to the health of Critias.” This happened about 404 years before the christian era. The ram enes, on account of the ficklene of his disposition, has been called Cothurnus , a part of the dre used both by men and women. Cicero , On Oratory , bk. 3 , ch. 16 .— Plutarch , Alcibiades , . — Cornel i us Nepos.