Socrates lived in a way that other poeple could not understand. The following ancient greek text shows us a little the way he lived.:( I give also the transaltion in english):
Socrates lived in a way that other poeple could not understand. In the following ancient greek text we can see how his life was. (I give also the translation in english )
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Ξενοφώντος Απομνημονεύματα, Βιβλίο Α, Κεφάλαιο VI, 2-4 Ἄξιον δ’ αὐτοῦ καί ἅ πρός Ἀντιφῶντα τόν σοφιστήν διελέχθη μή παραλιπεῖν° ὁ γάρ Ἀντιφῶν ποτε βουλόμενος τούς συνουσιαστάς αὐτοῦ παρελέσθαι προσελθῶν τῷ Σωκράτει παρόντων αὐτῶν ἔλεξε τάδε ° Ὦ Σώκρατες, ἐγὼ μὲν ᾤμην τοὺς φιλοσοφοῦντας εὐδεμονεστέρους χρῆναι γίγνεσθαι° σὺ δὲ μοι δοκεῖς τἀναντία τῆς φιλοσοφίας ἀπολελαυκέναι. Ζῇς γοῦν οὕτως ὡς οὐδ’ ἄν εἷς δοῦλος ὑπὸ δεσπότῃ διαιτώμενος μείνειε° σῖτά τε σιτῇ καὶ ποτὰ πίνεις τὰ φαυλότατα, καὶ ἱμάτιον ἠμφίεσαι οὐ μόνον φαῦλον, ἀλλά τὸ αὐτὸ θέρους τε καὶ χειμῶνος , ἀνυπόδητός τε καὶ ἀχίτων διατελεῖς. Καὶ μὴν χρήματά γε οὐ λαμβάνεις, ἅ καὶ κτωμένους εὐφραίνει καὶ κεκτημένους ἐλευθεριώτερόν τε ἥδιον ποιεῖ ζῆν. Εἰ οὖν ὥσπερ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἔργων οἱ διδάσκαλοι τοὺς μαθητὰς μιμητὰς ἑαυτῶν ἀποδεικνύουσιν, οὕτω καὶ σὺ τοὺς συνόντας διαθήσεις, νόμιζε κακοδαιμονίας διδάσκαλος εἶναι. Καὶ ὁ Σωκράτης πρὸς ταῦτα εἶπε° Δοκεῖς μοι, ὦ Ἀντιφῶν, ὑπειληφέναι με οὕτως ἀνιαρῶς ζῆν, ὥστε πέπεισμαι σὲ μᾶλλον ἀποθανεῖν ἄν ἑλέσθαι ἤ ζῆν ὥσπερ ἐγώ. ἴθι οὖν ἐπισκεψώμεθα τί χαλεπόν ᾔσθησαι τοῦ ἐμοῦ βίου. Transaltion in english: Xenophon, memoirs, book 1, chapter 6, 1-4
It worths not to leave out what he talked about with the sophist Antiphon. When Antiphon wanted once to make the students leave Socrates and come with his side, he went to Socrates and while they were there, he said: " Socrates, I thought that philosophers should become happy, but you seem to me that you have enjoyed exactly the opposite that philosophy gives. You live in a way that not even a slave would bear live under his master control. You eat and drink the worst things and you wear a cloth not only worthless but also the same in winter and in summer and you never wear shoes, neither a tunic. And not only this, but you not even take money (from the students), which enjoy them when we gain them and help us to live more free and more pleasant when we get them. So, if you make your students like you, like the other teachers do in other arts making their students to imitate them, then you must believe that you are a misfortune teacher." And Socrates answered to this: " I think Antiphon , you believe that I live so miserable that I'm sure you would prefer to die than to live like me? So please lets see what you think is miserable in my life."
As you can see form the text Socrates was a total different person and lived his life in his own way. That was his philosophy. But poeple who hated him and felt jelous of him tried to use this to defame Socrates and make his students to run away from him. One of them was the sophist Antiphon who really did not like Socrates at all and as you can read tried to defame him and proove that he was a bad teacher and a bad model for young persons.