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31 b 7 dxov av Tiva \6yov, ' my conduct would be intelligible,' 34 b I rax' &v \6yov exouv ^oriBovvTts, ' their conduct would be explicable.' That Xoyoy does not mean ' reason ' in this phrase is shown by the words which immediately follow in the last of these passages : nva SKKov (Xo^oi \6yov . . . dXX' fj Tov opBov re Koi h'lKaiov ; ' what explanation can be given except the straight and honest one ? ' b 3 €v diropp-fiTois, ' in a mystery.' Cp. Eur. Rhes. 943 fwarrip'uov re Twv dnopprjTav (fi...avas | eSei^ev 'Oprjieis. The doctrine of the immor- tality of the soul is Orphic in origin (cp. 70 c 5 «.). There is not the slightest reason for doubting that Socrates held it, or that he derived it from this source (cp. Introd. XIII). At the same time, he always refers to the details of Orphic theology with a touch of ironical deference as here. Cp. below 6g c 4 ». (V Tivi povpiji, ' in ward.' Tlys is Archer-Hind's translation, and 22 NOTES 6a conveniently retains the ambiguity of the original, which was some-, times understood to mean (i) ' watch ', and sometimes (2) ' prison ', Cicero took it in the first sense.
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