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          Chaerephon

          For the genus of bats, see Chaerephon (genus).

          Chaerephon(Greek: Χαιρεφῶν; born ca. 470-460 BCE, died ca. 403-399 BCE), of the Athenian deme Sphettus, was a loyal friend and follower of Socrates.

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          He is known only through brief descriptions by classical writers and was "an unusual man by all accounts",[1] though a man of loyal democratic values.

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          Chaerephon is mentioned by three writers of his time, all of whom were probably well acquainted with him: Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato.

          Aristophanes 
          Chaerephon appears in three of Aristophanes' comic plays: The Clouds, The Wasps, and The Birds.

          The Clouds (produced in 423 BCE) portrays Socrates and his assistant Chaerephon as a pair of charlatans operating a pseudo-scientific school in Athens. Chaerephon is represented in The Clouds as pale and malnourished, a "living corpse," and it is sometimes inferred that he must have been a thin, unhealthy looking fellow in real life.[2] In The Wa