上句见：Day161
The Story of Philosophy的第162句：第1章Plato第2节II. Socrates第14段第2句：

So they decreed that he should drink the hemlock. His friends came to his prison and offered him an easy escape, they had bribed all the officials who between him and liberty. He refused. He was seventy years old now (399 B.C.); perhaps he thought it was time for him to die, and that he could never again die so usefully. "Be of good cheer," he told his sorrowing friends, "and say that you are burying my body only." "When he had spoken these words," says Plato, in one of the great passages of the world's literature,5
5:Phaedo, sections 116-118, tr.Jowett
浙江大学译本：他的朋友赶来探望并给他提供了一条简单的逃跑路线，还买通了所有能阻止他走向自由的官员。

解析

这句话讲述了活路的路子。朋友们都不希望他死，找各种路子。
1、His friends came to his prison and offered him an easy escape,
朋友的建议：他的朋友来监狱来探望他并给他提供了一个简单易行的逃跑方案。

2、they had bribed all the officials who between him and liberty.
前期铺垫：他们已经买通了那些横在他与自由之间的官员。

他的朋友来探监同时给他提供了一个简单易行的逃跑方案，而且他们已经买通了阻止他走向自由的官员。