Note 338 — Chapter XXXIX · LEGES AND EPINOMIS. (continued 3)
Reading edition
Plato, Legg. x. p. 908. δεσμὸς μὲν οὖν ὑπαρχέτω πᾶσι· δεσμωτηρίων δὲ ὄντων ἐν τῇ πόλει τριῶν, &c.
Imprisonment included chains round the prisoner’s legs. Sokrates was put in chains during his thirty days’ confinement, arising from the voyage of the Theôric ship to Delos (Plat. Phædon, p. 60 B).