Apology of Socrates to the Jury
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source rows remain evidence only.","Xenophon remains central to Socratic studies, political leadership, virtue ethics, military history, household economy, ancient biography, and classical historiography."]},{"Kind":"TextSection","Title":"Evidence Note","Paragraphs":["Accepted as a direct Xenophon work and held separate from Plato\u0027s Apology; source rows remain evidence only."]},{"Kind":"RawSection","Title":"Full Text","BodyHtml":"\u003cp class=\"dz-philo__section-copy dz-philo__full-text-source\"\u003ePublic-domain full text from \u003ca href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1171\"\u003eProject Gutenberg eBook #1171\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003carticle class=\"dz-philo__full-text-body\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch1\u003e\r\n THE APOLOGY\r\n \u003c/h1\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch2\u003e\r\n By Xenophon\r\n \u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch2\u003e\r\n Translation by H. G. Dakyns\r\n \u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cpre\u003e\r\n Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a\r\n pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,\r\n and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land\r\n and property in Scillus, where he lived for many\r\n years before having to move once more, to settle\r\n in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.\r\n \u003c/pre\u003e\r\n\u003cpre\u003e\r\n The Apology describes Socrates\u0027 state of mind at\r\n his trial and execution, and especially his view\r\n that it was better to die before senility set in\r\n than to escape execution by humbling himself be-\r\n fore an unjust persecution. Xenophon was away at\r\n the time, involved in the events of the march of\r\n the ten thousand.\r\n \u003c/pre\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003e\r\n PREPARER\u0027S NOTE\r\n \u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n This was typed from Dakyns\u0027 series, \"The Works of Xenophon,\" a four-volume\r\n set. The complete list of Xenophon\u0027s works (though there is doubt about\r\n some of these) is:\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cpre\u003e\r\n Work Number of books\r\n\r\n The Anabasis 7\r\n The Hellenica 7\r\n The Cyropaedia 8\r\n The Memorabilia 4\r\n The Symposium 1\r\n The Economist 1\r\n On Horsemanship 1\r\n The Sportsman 1\r\n The Cavalry General 1\r\n The Apology 1\r\n On Revenues 1\r\n The Hiero 1\r\n The Agesilaus 1\r\n The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2\r\n\u003c/pre\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n Text in brackets \"{}\" is my transliteration of Greek text into English\r\n using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks\r\n have been lost.\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\u003ch3\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"#link2H_FOOT\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e Footnotes \u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ca id=\"link2H_4_0001\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– H2 anchor –\u003e \u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch2\u003e\r\n THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES \u003ca href=\"#linknote-1\" id=\"linknoteref-1\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e1\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n Among the reminiscences of Socrates, none, as it seems to me, is more\r\n deserving of record than the counsel he took with himself \u003ca href=\"#linknote-2\" id=\"linknoteref-2\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e2\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n (after being cited to appear before the court), not only with regard to\r\n his defence, but also as to the ending of his life. Others have written on\r\n this theme, and all without exception have touched upon \u003ca href=\"#linknote-3\" id=\"linknoteref-3\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e3\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n the lofty style of the philosopher, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-4\" id=\"linknoteref-4\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e4\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e which may be\r\n taken as a proof that the language used by Socrates was really of that\r\n type. But none of these writers has brought out clearly the fact that\r\n Socrates had come to regard death as for himself preferable to life; and\r\n consequently there is just a suspicion of foolhardiness in the arrogancy\r\n of his address. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-5\" id=\"linknoteref-5\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e5\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e We have, however, from the lips of\r\n one of his intimate acquaintances, Hermogenes, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-6\" id=\"linknoteref-6\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e6\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e the son of\r\n Hipponicus, an account of him which shows the high demeanour in question\r\n to have been altogether in keeping with the master\u0027s rational purpose. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-7\" id=\"linknoteref-7\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e7\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n Hermogenes says that, seeing Socrates discoursing on every topic rather\r\n than that of his impending trial, he roundly put it to him whether he\r\n ought not to be debating the line of his defence, to which Socrates in the\r\n first instance answered: \"What! do I not seem to you to have spent my\r\n whole life in meditating my defence?\" And when Hermogenes asked him,\r\n \"How?\" he added: \"By a lifelong persistence in doing nothing wrong, and\r\n that I take to be the finest practice for his defence which a man could\r\n devise.\" Presently reverting to the topic, Hermogenes demanded: \"Do you\r\n not see, Socrates, how often Athenian juries \u003ca href=\"#linknote-8\" id=\"linknoteref-8\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e8\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e are\r\n constrained by arguments to put quite innocent people to death, and not\r\n less often to acquit the guilty, either through some touch of pity excited\r\n by the pleadings, or that the defendant had skill to turn some charming\r\n phrase?\" Thus appealed to, Socrates replied: \"Nay, solemnly I tell you,\r\n twice already I have essayed to consider my defence, and twice the\r\n divinity \u003ca href=\"#linknote-9\" id=\"linknoteref-9\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e9\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n hinders me\"; and to the remark of Hermogenes, \"That is strange!\" he\r\n answered again: \"Strange, do you call it, that to God it should seem\r\n better for me to die at once? Do you not know that up to this moment I\r\n will not concede to any man to have lived a better life than I have; since\r\n what can exceed the pleasure, which has been mine, of knowing \u003ca href=\"#linknote-10\" id=\"linknoteref-10\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e10\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n that my whole life has been spent holily and justly? And indeed this\r\n verdict of self-approval I found re-echoed in the opinion which my friends\r\n and intimates have formed concerning me. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-11\" id=\"linknoteref-11\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e11\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e And now if\r\n my age is still to be prolonged, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-12\" id=\"linknoteref-12\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e12\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e I know\r\n that I cannot escape paying \u003ca href=\"#linknote-13\" id=\"linknoteref-13\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e13\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e the penalty of old age, in\r\n increasing dimness of sight and dulness of hearing. I shall find myself\r\n slower to learn new lessons, and apter to forget the lessons I have\r\n learnt. And if to these be added the consciousness of failing powers, the\r\n sting of self-reproach, what prospect have I of any further joy in living?\r\n It may be, you know,\" he added, \"that God out of his great kindness is\r\n intervening in my behalf \u003ca href=\"#linknote-14\" id=\"linknoteref-14\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e14\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e to suffer me to close my life in\r\n the ripeness of age, and by the gentlest of deaths. For if at this time\r\n sentence of death be passed upon me, it is plain I shall be allowed to\r\n meet an end which, in the opinion of those who have studied the matter, is\r\n not only the easiest in itself, but one which will cause the least trouble\r\n to one\u0027s friends, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-15\" id=\"linknoteref-15\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e15\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e while engendering the deepest\r\n longing for the departed. For of necessity he will only be thought of with\r\n regret and longing who leaves nothing behind unseemly or discomfortable to\r\n haunt the imagination of those beside him, but, sound of body, and his\r\n soul still capable of friendly repose, fades tranquilly away.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"No doubt,\" he added, \"the gods were right in opposing me at that time\r\n (touching the inquiry, what I was to say in my defence), \u003ca href=\"#linknote-16\" id=\"linknoteref-16\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e16\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n when you all thought the great thing was to discover some means of\r\n acquittal; \u003ca href=\"#linknote-17\" id=\"linknoteref-17\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e17\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n since, had I effected that, it is clear I should have prepared for myself,\r\n not that surcease from life which is in store for me anon, but to end my\r\n days wasted by disease, or by old age, on which a confluent stream of evil\r\n things most alien to joyousness converges.\" \u003ca href=\"#linknote-18\" id=\"linknoteref-18\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e18\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"No,\" he added, \"God knows I shall display no ardent zeal to bring that\r\n about. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-19\" id=\"linknoteref-19\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e19\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n On the contrary, if by proclaiming all the blessings which I owe to god\r\n and men; if, by blazoning forth the opinion which I entertain with regard\r\n to myself, I end by wearying the court, even so will I choose death rather\r\n than supplicate in servile sort for leave to live a little longer merely\r\n to gain a life impoverished in place of death.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n It was in this determination, Hermogenes states, that, when the\r\n prosecution accused him of not recognising the gods recognised by the\r\n state, but introducing novel divinities and corrupting the young, Socrates\r\n stepped forward and said: \"In the first place, sirs, I am at a loss to\r\n imagine on what ground \u003ca href=\"#linknote-20\" id=\"linknoteref-20\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e20\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Meletus asserts that I do not\r\n recognise the gods which are recognised by the state, since, as far as\r\n sacrificing goes, the rest of the world who have chanced to be present\r\n have been in the habit of seeing me so engaged at common festivals, and on\r\n the public altars; and so might Meletus himself, if he had wished. And as\r\n to novel divinities, how, pray, am I supposed to introduce them by stating\r\n that I have a voice \u003ca href=\"#linknote-21\" id=\"linknoteref-21\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e21\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e from God which clearly signifies\r\n to me what I ought do do? Why, what else do those who make use of the\r\n cries of birds or utterances of men draw their conclusions from if not\r\n from voices? Who will deny that the thunder has a voice and is a very\r\n mighty omen; \u003ca href=\"#linknote-22\" id=\"linknoteref-22\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e22\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and the priestess on her tripod\r\n at Pytho, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-23\" id=\"linknoteref-23\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e23\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n does not she also proclaim by voice the messages from the god? The god, at\r\n any rate, has foreknowledge, and premonishes those whom he will of what is\r\n about to be. That is a thing which all the world believes and asserts even\r\n as I do. Only, when they describe these premonitions under the name of\r\n birds and utterances, tokens \u003ca href=\"#linknote-24\" id=\"linknoteref-24\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e24\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and soothsayers, I speak of a\r\n divinity, and in using that designation I claim to speak at once more\r\n exactly and more reverentially than they do who ascribe the power of the\r\n gods to birds. And that I am not lying against the Godhead I have this as\r\n a proof: although I have reported to numbers of friends the counsels of\r\n heaven, I have never at any time been shown to be a deceiver or deceived.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n As they listened to these words the judges murmured their dissent, some as\r\n disbelieving what was said, and others out of simple envy that Socrates\r\n should actually receive from heaven more than they themselves; whereupon\r\n Socrates returned to the charge. \"Come,\" he said, \"lend me your ears while\r\n I tell you something more, so that those of you who choose may go to a\r\n still greater length in refusing to believe that I am thus highly honoured\r\n by the divine powers. Chaerephon \u003ca href=\"#linknote-25\" id=\"linknoteref-25\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e25\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e once, in\r\n the presence of many witnesses, put a question at Delhi concerning me, and\r\n Apollo answered that there was no human being more liberal, or more\r\n upright, or more temperate than myself.\" And when once more on hearing\r\n these words the judges gave vent, as was only natural, to a fiercer murmur\r\n of dissent, Socrates once again spoke: \"Yet, sirs, they were still greater\r\n words which the god spake in oracle concerning Lycurgus, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-26\" id=\"linknoteref-26\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e26\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n the great lawgiver of Lacedaemon, than those concerning me. It is said\r\n that as he entered the temple the god addressed him with the words: \u0027I am\r\n considering whether to call thee god or man.\u0027 Me he likened not indeed to\r\n a god, but in excellence \u003ca href=\"#linknote-27\" id=\"linknoteref-27\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e27\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e preferred me far beyond other\r\n men.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"Still I would not have you accept this even on the faith of the god too\r\n rashly; rather I would have you investigate, point by point, what the god\r\n has said. I ask you, is there any one \u003ca href=\"#linknote-28\" id=\"linknoteref-28\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e28\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e else, you\r\n know of, less enslaved than myself to the appetites \u003ca href=\"#linknote-29\" id=\"linknoteref-29\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e29\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e of the\r\n body? Can you name another man of more independent spirit than myself,\r\n seeing that I accept from no one either gifts or pay? Whom have you any\r\n right to believe to be more just \u003ca href=\"#linknote-30\" id=\"linknoteref-30\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e30\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e than one\r\n so suited with what he has, that the things of others excite no craving in\r\n him? \u003ca href=\"#linknote-31\" id=\"linknoteref-31\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e31\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n Whom would one reasonably deem wise, rather than such a one as myself,\r\n who, from the moment I began to understand things spoken, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-32\" id=\"linknoteref-32\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e32\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n have never omitted to inquire into and learn every good thing in my power?\r\n And that I laboured not in vain, what more conclusive evidence than the\r\n fact that so many of my fellow-citizens who make virtue their pursuit, and\r\n many strangers also, choose my society in preference to that of others? \u003ca href=\"#linknote-33\" id=\"linknoteref-33\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e33\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n And how are we to explain the fact that though all know well enough that I\r\n am wholly unable to repay them in money, so many are eager to present me\r\n with some gift? \u003ca href=\"#linknote-34\" id=\"linknoteref-34\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e34\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e And what do you make of this—while\r\n no one dreams of dunning me for benefits conferred, hosts of people\r\n acknowledge debts of gratitude to myself? And what of this, that during\r\n the siege, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-35\" id=\"linknoteref-35\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e35\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n while others were pitying themselves \u003ca href=\"#linknote-36\" id=\"linknoteref-36\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e36\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e I lived in\r\n no greater straits than when the city was at the height of her prosperity?\r\n and of this, that while others provide themselves with delicacies \u003ca href=\"#linknote-37\" id=\"linknoteref-37\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e37\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n of the market at great cost, mine are the dainties of the soul more sweet\r\n than theirs, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-38\" id=\"linknoteref-38\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e38\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e procured without expense? If in\r\n all I have said about myself no one can convict me of lying, is it not\r\n obvious that the praise I get from gods and men is justly earned? And yet\r\n in spite of all, Meletus, you will have it that by such habits I corrupt\r\n the young. We know, I fancy, what such corrupting influences are; and\r\n perhaps you will tell us if you know of any one who, under my influence,\r\n has been changed from a religious into an irreligious man; who, from being\r\n sober-minded, has become prodigal; from being a moderate drinker has\r\n become a wine-bibber and a drunkard; from being a lover of healthy honest\r\n toil has become effeminate, or under the thrall of some other wicked\r\n pleasure.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"Nay, bless my soul,\" exclaimed Meletus, \"I know those whom you persuaded\r\n to obey yourself rather than the fathers who begat them.\" \u003ca href=\"#linknote-39\" id=\"linknoteref-39\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e39\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"I admit it,\" Socrates replied, \"in the case of education, for they know\r\n that I have made the matter a study; and with regard to health a man\r\n prefers to obey his doctor rather than his parents; in the public assembly\r\n the citizens of Athens, I presume, obey those whose arguments exhibit the\r\n soundest wisdom rather than their own relations. And is it not the case\r\n that, in your choice of generals, you set your fathers and brothers, and,\r\n bless me! your own selves aside, by comparison with those whom you believe\r\n to be the wisest authorities on military matters?\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"No doubt, Socrates,\" replied Meletus, \"because it is expedient and\r\n customary so to do.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"Well then,\" rejoined Socrates, \"does it not strike even you, Meletus, as\r\n wonderful when in all ordinary concerns the best people should obtain, I\r\n do not say only an equal share, but an exclusive preference; but in my\r\n case, simply because I am selected by certain people as an adept in\r\n respect of the greatest treasure men possess—education, I am on that\r\n account to be prosecuted by you, sir, on the capital charge?\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n Much more than this, it stands to reason, was urged, whether by himself or\r\n by the friends who advocated his cause. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-40\" id=\"linknoteref-40\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e40\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e But my\r\n object has not been to mention everything that arose out of the suit. It\r\n suffices me to have shown on the one hand that Socrates, beyond\r\n everything, desired not to display impiety to heaven, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-41\" id=\"linknoteref-41\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e41\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n and injustice to men; and on the other, that escape from death was not a\r\n thing, in his opinion, to be clamoured for importunately—on the\r\n contrary, he believed that the time was already come for him to die. That\r\n such was the conclusion to which he had come was made still more evident\r\n later when the case had been decided against him. In the first place, when\r\n called upon to suggest a counter-penalty, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-42\" id=\"linknoteref-42\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e42\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e he would\r\n neither do so himself nor suffer his friends to do so for him, but went so\r\n far as to say that to propose a counter-penalty was like a confession of\r\n guilt. And afterwards, when his companions wished to steal him out of\r\n prison, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-43\" id=\"linknoteref-43\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e43\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n he would not follow their lead, but would seem to have treated the idea as\r\n a jest, by asking \"whether they happened to know of some place outside\r\n Attica where death was forbidden to set foot?\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n When the trial drew to an end, we are told, the master said: \u003ca href=\"#linknote-44\" id=\"linknoteref-44\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e44\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n \"Sirs, those who instructed the witnesses that they ought to perjure\r\n themselves and bear false witness against me, alike with those who\r\n listened to their instruction, must be conscious to themselves of a deep\r\n impiety and injustice. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-45\" id=\"linknoteref-45\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e45\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e But for myself, what reason have\r\n I at the present time to hold my head less high than I did before sentence\r\n was passed against me, if I have not been convicted of having done any of\r\n those things whereof my accusers accused me? It has not been proved\r\n against me that I have sacrificed to novel divinities in place of Zeus and\r\n Hera and the gods who form their company. I have not taken oath by any\r\n other gods, nor named their name.\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"And then the young—how could I corrupt them by habituating them to\r\n manliness and frugality? since not even my accusers themselves allege\r\n against me that I have committed any of those deeds \u003ca href=\"#linknote-46\" id=\"linknoteref-46\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e46\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e of which\r\n death is the penalty, such as robbery of temples, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-47\" id=\"linknoteref-47\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e47\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e breaking\r\n into houses, selling freemen into slavery, or betrayal of the state; so\r\n that I must still ask myself in wonderment how it has been proved to you\r\n that I have done a deed worthy of death. Nor yet again because I die\r\n innocently is that a reason why I should lower my crest, for that is a\r\n blot not upon me but upon those who condemned me.\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n \"For me, I find a certain consolation in the case of Palamedes, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-48\" id=\"linknoteref-48\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e48\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n whose end was not unlike my own; who still even to-day furnishes a far\r\n nobler theme of song than Odysseus who unjustly slew him; and I know that\r\n testimony will be borne to me also by time future and time past that I\r\n never wronged another at any time or ever made a worse man of him, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-49\" id=\"linknoteref-49\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e49\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n but ever tried to benefit those who practised discussion with me, teaching\r\n them gratuitously every good thing in my power.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n Having so said he turned and went in a manner quite in conformity \u003ca href=\"#linknote-50\" id=\"linknoteref-50\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e50\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n with the words which he had spoken—so bright an air was discernible\r\n alike in the glance of his eye, his gesture, and his step.\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n And when he perceived those who followed by his side in tears, \"What is\r\n this?\" he asked. \"Why do you weep now? \u003ca href=\"#linknote-51\" id=\"linknoteref-51\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e51\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e Do you not\r\n know that for many a long day, ever since I was born, sentence of death\r\n was passed upon me by nature? If so be I perish prematurely while the tide\r\n of life\u0027s blessings flows free and fast, certainly I and my well-wishers\r\n should feel pained; but if it be that I am bringing my life to a close on\r\n the eve of troubles, for my part I think you ought all of you to take\r\n heart of grace and rejoice in my good fortune.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n Now there was a certain Apollodorus, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-52\" id=\"linknoteref-52\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e52\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e who was an\r\n enthusiastic lover of the master, but for the rest a simple-minded man. He\r\n exclaimed very innocently, \"But the hardest thing of all to bear,\r\n Socrates, is to see you put to death unjustly.\" \u003ca href=\"#linknote-53\" id=\"linknoteref-53\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e53\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n Whereupon Socrates, it is said, gently stroked the young man\u0027s head:\r\n \"Would you have been better pleased, my dear one, to see me put to death\r\n for some just reason rather than unjustly?\" and as he spoke he smiled\r\n tenderly. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-54\" id=\"linknoteref-54\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e54\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n It is also said that, seeing Anytus \u003ca href=\"#linknote-55\" id=\"linknoteref-55\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e55\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e pass by,\r\n Socrates remarked: \"How proudly the great man steps; he thinks, no doubt,\r\n he has performed some great and noble deed in putting me to death, and all\r\n because, seeing him deemed worthy of the highest honours of the state, I\r\n told him it ill became him to bring up his so in a tan-yard. \u003ca href=\"#linknote-56\" id=\"linknoteref-56\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e56\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n What a scamp the fellow is! he appears not to know that of us two\r\n whichever has achieved what is best and noblest for all future time is the\r\n real victor in this suit. Well! well!\" he added, \"Homer \u003ca href=\"#linknote-57\" id=\"linknoteref-57\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e57\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n has ascribed to some at the point of death a power of forecasting things\r\n to be, and I too am minded to utter a prophecy. Once, for a brief space, I\r\n associated with the son of Anytus, and he seemed to me not lacking in\r\n strength of soul; and what I say is, he will not adhere long to the\r\n slavish employment which his father has prepared for him, but, in the\r\n absence of any earnest friend and guardian, he is like to be led into some\r\n base passion and go to great lengths in depravity.\"\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n The prophecy proved true. The young man fell a victim to the pleasures of\r\n wine; night and day he never ceased drinking, and at last became a mere\r\n good-for-nothing, worthless alike to his city, his friends, and himself.\r\n As to Anytus, even though the grave has closed upon him, his evil\r\n reputation still survives him, due alike to his son\u0027s base bringing-up and\r\n his own want of human feeling.\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n Socrates did, it is true, by his self-laudation draw down upon him the\r\n jealousy of the court and caused his judges all the more to record their\r\n votes against him. Yet even so I look upon the lot of destiny which he\r\n obtained as providential, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-58\" id=\"linknoteref-58\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e58\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e chancing as he did upon the\r\n easiest amidst the many shapes of death, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-59\" id=\"linknoteref-59\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e59\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and\r\n escaping as he did the one grievous portion of existence. And what a\r\n glorious chance, moreover, he had to display the full strength of his\r\n soul, for when once he had decided that death was better for him than\r\n life, just as in the old days he had never harshly opposed himself to the\r\n good things of life morosely, \u003ca href=\"#linknote-60\" id=\"linknoteref-60\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e60\u003c/small\u003e\u003c/a\u003e so even in face of death he\r\n showed no touch of weakness, but with gaiety welcomed death\u0027s embrace, and\r\n discharged life\u0027s debt.\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n For myself indeed, as I lay to mind the wisdom of the man and his\r\n nobility, I can neither forget him nor, remembering him, forbear to praise\r\n him. But if any of those who make virtue their pursuit have ever met a\r\n more helpful friend than Socrates, I tender such an one my congratulations\r\n as a most enviable man.\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"link2H_FOOT\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– H2 anchor –\u003e \u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv style=\"height: 4em;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003ch2\u003e\r\n Footnotes:\r\n \u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-1\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 1 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-1\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"Socrates\u0027 Defence\r\n before the Dicasts.\" For the title of the work see Grote, \"H. G.\" viii.\r\n 641; Schneid. ap. L. Dindorf\u0027s note {pros tous dikastas}, ed. Ox. 1862,\r\n and Dindorf\u0027s own note; L. Schmitz, \"On the Apology of Socrates, commonly\r\n attributed to Xenophon,\" \"Class. Mus.\" v. 222 foll.; G. Sauppe, \"Praef.\"\r\n vol. iii. p. 117, ed. ster.; J. J. Hartman, \"An. Xen.\" p. 111 foll.; E.\r\n Richter, \"Xen. Stud.\" pp. 61-96; M. Schanz, \"Platos Apologia.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-2\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 2 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-2\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or possibly, \"his\r\n deliberate behaviour.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-3\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 3 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-3\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"have succeeded in\r\n hitting off\"; \"done full justice to.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-4\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 4 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-4\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"the magniloquence of\r\n the master.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-5\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 5 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-5\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"so that according to\r\n them his lofty speech seems rather foolhardy.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-6\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 6 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-6\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ See \"Mem.\" IV. viii. 4\r\n foll., a passage of which this is either an \"ebauchement\" or a\r\n \"rechauffe.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-7\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 7 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-7\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"the philosopher\u0027s cast\r\n of thought.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-8\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 8 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-8\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Dikasteries.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-9\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 9 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-9\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {to daimonion}.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-10\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 10 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-10\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {edein}, i.e. at any\r\n moment.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-11\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 11 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-11\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ For the phrase {iskhuros\r\n agamenos emauton}, cf. \"Mem.\" II. i. 19.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-12\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 12 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-12\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ L. Dindorf cf. Dio Chrys.\r\n \"Or.\" 28, {anagke gar auto en probainonti anti men kallistou aiskhrotero\r\n gignesthai k.t.l.}]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-13\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 13 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-13\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {apoteleisthai}. In\r\n \"Mem.\" IV. viii. 8, {epiteleisthai}.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-14\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 14 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-14\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"God of his good\r\n favour vouchsafes as my protector that I should,\" etc. For {proxenei} cf.\r\n \"Anab.\" VI. v. 14; Soph. \"O. C.\" 465, and \"O. T.\" 1483; and Prof. Jebb\u0027s\r\n notes ad loc. \"the god\u0027s kindly offices grant to me that I should lose my\r\n life.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-15\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 15 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-15\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. Plat. \"Phaed.\" 66.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-16\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 16 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-16\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {te tou logou\r\n episkepsei}. Cf. Plat. \"Rep.\" 456 C.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-17\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 17 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-17\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, if {emin}, transl.\r\n \"we all were for thinking that the main thing was.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-18\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 18 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-18\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"that sink into which\r\n a confluent stream of evil humours discharge most incompatible with gaiety\r\n of mind.\" Schneid. conj. {eremon} sc. {geras}.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-19\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 19 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-19\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"I will give no\r\n helping hand to that.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-20\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 20 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-20\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. \"Mem.\" I. i. 2.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-21\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 21 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-21\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. Plat. \"Apol.\" 19.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-22\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 22 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-22\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. \"Anab.\" III. ii. 11;\r\n Aristoph. \"Birds,\" 720.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-23\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 23 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-23\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Delphi.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-24\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 24 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-24\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"the objects that\r\n meet us.\" See Prof. Jebb ad Theophr. \"Ch.\" xxviii. 5.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-25\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 25 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-25\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ L. Dindorf cf. Athen. v.\r\n 218 E; Hermesianax ap. Athen. xiii. 599 A; Liban. vol. iii. pp. 34, 35;\r\n Plat. \"Apol.\" 21 A; Paus. i. 22. 8; Schol. ad Aristoph. \"Clouds,\" 144;\r\n Grote, \"H. G.\" viii. 567 foll.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-26\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 26 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-26\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ See Herod. i. 65:\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cpre\u003e\r\n {ekeis, o Lukoorge, emon pori piona neon,\r\n Zeni philos kai pasin \u0027Olumpia domat\u0027 ekhousi\r\n dizo e se theon manteusomai e anthropon.\r\n all\u0027 eti kai mallon theon elpomai, o Lukoorge.}\r\n\r\n Cf. Plut. \"Lyc.\" 5 (Clough, i. 89).]\r\n\u003c/pre\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-27\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 27 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-27\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"gave judgment\r\n beforehand that I far excelled.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-28\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 28 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-28\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Lit. \"whom do you know,\"\r\n and so throughout.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-29\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 29 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-29\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. Plat. \"Phaed.\" 66 C.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-30\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 30 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-30\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"so attempered and\r\n adjusted.\" The phrase savours of \"cynic.\" theory.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-31\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 31 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-31\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"present no\r\n temptation to him\"; lit. \"that he stands in no further need of what\r\n belongs to his neighbours.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-32\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 32 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-32\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {ta legomena}, \"the\r\n meaning of words and the force of argument.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-33\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 33 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-33\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {ek panton}. Cf. Thuc. i.\r\n 120, {osper kai en allois ek panton protimontai (oi egemones)}, \"as they\r\n (leaders) are first in honour, they should be first in the fulfilment of\r\n their duties\" (Jowett).]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-34\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 34 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-34\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ The commentators quote\r\n Libanius, \"Apol.\" vol. iii. p. 39, {kai dia touto ekalei men Eurulokhos o\r\n Kharistios, ekalei de Skopas k Kranonios, oukh ekista lontes,\r\n upiskhnoumenoi}. Cf. Diog. Laert. ii. 31, {Kharmidou oiketas auto\r\n didontos, in\u0027 ap\u0027 auton prosodeuoito, oukh eileto}. Cf. id. 65, 74.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-35\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 35 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-35\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ See \"Hell.\" II. ii. 10.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-36\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 36 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-36\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {oikteirein eautous}. See\r\n L. Dind. ad loc. For an incident in point see \"Mem.\" II. vii.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-37\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 37 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-37\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Plat. \"Rep.\" iii. 404 D,\r\n \"refinements of Attic confectionery.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-38\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 38 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-38\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {ek tes psukhes},\r\n possibly \"by a healthy appetite.\" Cf. \"Symp.\" iv. 41. The same sentiment\r\n \"ex ore Antisthenis.\" See Joel, op. cit. i. 382; Schanz, Plat. \"Apol.\" p.\r\n 88, S. 26.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-39\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 39 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-39\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. \"Mem.\" I. ii. 49.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-44\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 44 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-44\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {eipein auton\r\n [autos(?)]}, i.e. \"according to Hermiogenes.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-45\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 45 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-45\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"must have a heavy\r\n load on their minds in the consciousness of their impiety and injustice.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-40\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 40 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-40\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {sunagoreuein}, L. and S.\r\n cf Thuc. vi. 6, \"partisans,\" viii. 84, \"pleaded the case of\" (Jowett).]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-41\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 41 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-41\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Or, \"laid the greatest\r\n stress of not being guilty of impiety\"; \"attached the greatest importance\r\n to the fact that he was never guilty of impiety.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-42\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 42 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-42\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {upotimasthai}. See L.\r\n Dind. cf. Cic. \"Orat.\" i. 54; the technical word is {antitimasthai}. Cf.\r\n Plat. \"Apol.\" 36 D; Diog. Laert. ii. 41. These authorities tell a\r\n different story. Why should these stories, if true, as no doubt they were,\r\n be omitted?]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-43\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 43 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-43\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. Plat. \"Crit.\" 44 B.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-46\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 46 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-46\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. \"Mem.\" I. ii. 62.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-47\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 47 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-47\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ See Plat. \"Rep.\" iii. 413\r\n A.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-48\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 48 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-48\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. \"Mem.\" IV. viii. 9,\r\n 10; ib. IV. ii. 3. See Plat. \"Rep.\" v. 476 D, {exomen ti paramutheisthai\r\n auton}; and \"Hunting,\" i. 11. The story of Palamedes is told by Ovid,\r\n \"Met.\" xiii. 5.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-49\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 49 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-49\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. Plat. \"Apol.\" 25 D,\r\n {poteron eme eisageis deuro os diaphtheironta tous neous kai poneroterous\r\n poiounta ekonta e akonta}.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-50\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 50 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-50\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {omologoumenos}. For the\r\n use of the word L. Dind. cf. Diog. Laert. vii. 87, {dioper protos o Zenon\r\n en to peri anthropou phuseos telos eipe to omologoumenos te phusei zen}\r\n (Cicero\u0027s \"naturae convenienter vivere,\" L. and S.), whereas the regular\r\n Attic use is different. Cf. \"Oec.\" i. 11, {kai omologoumenos ge o logos\r\n emin khorei} = \"consentanea ratione.\" \"Our argument runs on all-fours.\"\r\n Plat. \"Symp.\" 186 B, {to nasoun omologoumenos eteron te kai anomoion\r\n esti}, \"ut inter omnes convenit.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-51\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 51 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-51\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ \"Why precisely now?\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-52\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 52 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-52\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. \"Mem.\" III. xi. 17;\r\n Plut. \"Cato min.\" 46 (Clough, iv. 417). See Cobet, \"Pros. Xen.\" s.n.; cf.\r\n Plat. \"Symp.\" 173; \"Phaed.\" 54 A, 117 D; Aelian, \"V. H.\" i. 16; Heges.\r\n \"Delph.\" ap. Athen. xi. 507.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-53\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 53 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-53\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Diog. Laert. ii. 5. 35,\r\n ascribes the remark to Xanthippe, and so Val. Max. 7. 2, Ext. 1.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-54\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 54 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-54\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ See Plat. \"Phaed.\" 89 B,\r\n where a similar action is attributed to Socrates in the case of Phaedo\r\n (his beloved disciple). \"He stroked my head and pressed the hair upon my\r\n neck—he had a way of playing with my air; and then he said:\r\n \u0027To-morrow, Phaedo, I suppose that these fair locks of yours will be\r\n severed.\u0027\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-55\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 55 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-55\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Son of Anthemion. See\r\n Plat. \"Men.\" 90 B, {airountai goun auton epi tas megistas arkhas}, Plut.\r\n \"Alc.\" 4; id. \"Coriol.\" 14; Aristot. \"Ath. Pol.\" 27, 25, re {to dekazein};\r\n 34, 23. A moderate oligarch; cf. Xen. \"Hell.\" II. iii. 42, 44; Schol. Cod.\r\n Clarkiani ad Plat. \"Apol.\" 18 B ap. L. Dind. ad loc.; cf. Diod. xiii. 64.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-56\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 56 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-56\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. Plat. \"Apol.\" 23 E.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-57\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 57 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-57\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ e.g. Patroclus dying\r\n predicts the death of Hector who had slain him, \"Il.\" xvi. 851 foll.; and\r\n Hector that of Achilles, \"Il.\" xxii. 358 foll. Cf. Cic. \"de Div.\" 1, 30.\r\n Plato, \"Apol.\" 39 C, making Socrates thus address his judges: {to de de\r\n meta touto epithumo umin khresmodesai, o katapsephisamenoi mou\u0027 kai gar\r\n eimi ede entautha, en o malist\u0027 anthropoi khresmodousin, otan mellosin\r\n apothaneisthai}. \"And now, O men who have condemned me, I would fain\r\n prophesy to you, for I am about to die, and that is the hour at which all\r\n men are gifted with prophetic power\" (Jowett).]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-58\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 58 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-58\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Lit. \"dear to the gods\";\r\n \"highly favoured.\"]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-59\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 59 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-59\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ Cf. Hom. \"Od.\" xii. 341,\r\n {pantes men stugeroi thanatoi deiloisi brotoisin}.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003ca id=\"linknote-60\"\u003e\r\n\u003c!– Note –\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"foot\"\u003e\r\n 60 (\u003ca href=\"#linknoteref-60\" class=\"pginternal\"\u003ereturn\u003c/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e [ {prosantes}, i.e. \"he\r\n faced death boldly as he had encountered life\u0027s blessings blandly.\" \"As he\r\n had been no stoic to repudiate life\u0027s blessings, so he was no coward to,\"\r\n etc.]\r\n \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003c/article\u003e"}],"SectionSequence":["Back Link","Work Title","Deck","Author","Period","Era","Composition","Date Note","Region","Terra Avita","Terra Avita Region","Modern Country","Original Title","Language","Primary Discipline","Secondary Discipline","Tradition","Full Versions","Core Thesis","Classification","Arguments","Influence","Significance","Evidence Note","Full Text"],"Counts":{"ContextCards":3,"GeoCards":4,"DisciplineCards":2,"Links":11,"Sections":25,"Styles":3,"Scripts":1}}