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“In Aristophanes' The Clouds, Socrates is lowered on a hammock.”
The play depicts Socrates descending in a suspended basket, not on a hammock. Multiple translations and scholarly discussions agree on the basket interpretation, while none of the cited evidence uses “hammock.” Uncertainty about the apparatus’s exact construction does not support substituting that term.
“In Plato's dialogue "Apology", Socrates says that the Delphic Oracle declared that no one was wiser than Socrates.”
The dialogue plainly contains this statement. In Apology 21a–21b, Socrates says Chaerephon consulted the Delphic oracle and received the answer that no one was wiser than Socrates. The main caveat is that this is Socrates’ report within Plato’s dialogue, not independent proof that the event happened historically.