Chaerephon · Atlas

in the texts

CloudsClassical · Greek

A historical associate of Socrates, mocked in the play as one of the pale, emaciated followers of the thinking-shop.

Chaerephon the Sphettian asked him whether he thought gnats buzzed through the mouth or the breech.

You mean the quacks, the pale-faced wretches, the bare-footed fellows, of whose numbers are the miserable Socrates and Chaerephon.

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Socrates lately asked Chaerephon about a flea, how many of its own feet it jumped;

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BirdsClassical · Greek

A follower of Socrates, mocked by the chorus with the recurring comic epithet of a 'bat' for his pallid, ghostly appearance.

Then that bat of a Chaerephon came up from hell to drink the camel's blood.

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ApologyClassical · Greek

Socrates's old comrade who consulted the Delphic oracle asking whether anyone was wiser than Socrates; now deceased.

And about these things his brother here will bear you witness, since Chaerephon is dead.

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ApologyClassical · Greek

The man who inquired at Delphi about Socrates.

Once on a time when Chaerephon made inquiry at the Delphic oracle concerning me, in the presence of many people Apollo answered that no man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent.

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