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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

XXVI. How Socrates looked, when he was fain to gird himself

with a skin, Xanthippe his wife having taken away his clothes,

and carried them abroad with her, and what he said to his fellows

and friends, who were ashamed; and out of respect to him,

did retire themselves when they saw him thus decked.