Sophroniscus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Alcibiades 1
Socrates's father, named in Socrates's formal self-identification.
Alcibiades, the son of Cleinias, it seems, neither had nor has any lover except one only, and that a cherished one, Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus and Phaenarete.
Euthydemus
Socrates's father, named in the exchange and used by the brothers to conclude, by their sophistic logic, that Socrates is fatherless.
His father was Chaeredemus, mine Sophroniscus.
No, for I presume, interposed Euthydemus, that if Chaeredemus is a father Sophroniscus in his turn, being other than a father, is not a father;
Laches
Socrates's father, deceased, who had been a close friend of Lysimachus without ever quarrelling with him.
but if you, son of Sophroniscus, have any good advice for our friend, who belongs to your own district, you ought to let him have it.
On my soul, Socrates, it is good to know that you keep up your father’s name, which was a most honorable one, both on general grounds and particularly because of the intimate relation in which you and we shall equally feel ourselves to be.
Lysimachus, it looks to me, in very truth, as though you only knew Socrates at second hand— through his father—and had not conversed with him personally except in his childhood, when you may have chanced to meet him among the people of his district, accompanying his father at the temple or at some local gathering.