Lamprocles

Lamprocles () was Socrates' and Xanthippe's eldest son. His two brothers were Menexenus and Sophroniscus. Lamprocles was a youth (μειράκιον meirakion) at the time of Socrates' trial and death. According to Aristotle, Socrates' descendants as a whole turned out to be unremarkable "fools and dullards".

References

• Plato, Apology 34d; Phaedo 116b.
• Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.2.1–14.
• Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2 Chapter 15 https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0060%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D15%3Asection%3D3.