person
Xanthippe
also: Xanthippe
The wife of Socrates, proverbial in antiquity for her sharp temper. Cicero cites her testimony that Socrates wore the same calm expression leaving and returning home, as proof of his unchanging serenity of mind.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.31 Xanthippe is said to have been in the habit of declaring
The wife of Socrates, proverbially shrewish, here cited approvingly: she observed that Socrates' face was always the same on leaving and returning home. His unvarying countenance reflects an unvarying mind.