Phædon

, an A then i an put to death by the 30 tyrants. His daughters, to escape the oppre ors and preserve their chastity, threw themselves together into a well.――A disciple of So crates. He had been seized by pirates in his younger days, and the philosopher, who seemed to discover something uncommon and promising in his countenance, bought his liberty for a sum of money, and ever after esteemed him. Phædon, after the death of So crates, returned to Elis his native country, where he founded a sect of philosophers called Elean . The name of Phædon is affixed to one of the dialogues of Plato. Macrobius , Saturnalia , bk. 1 , ch. 11 .— Diogenes Laërtius. ――An archon at Athens, when the A then i ans were directed by the oracle to remove the bones of These us to Attica. Plutarch , These us .