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And if I repel them , they , by their influence with the okler people , will drive mefrotn the place : b « t if I XKjmittliei » Vt ^ eW fathers and relations wilV ^ o ii for their sake * Perhaps so&te&ody m&y ^ ay , --3 $ tit '< € ¦ & £ & ! thou not ^ OSocrateS 4 going into exile * livse ? * hfcreMiri-pea&e 5 ttn $ sitenee ? Here it is that I have the hardest task to persuade you ? fot \ if * I ftay tliat this
would be to disobey the god ; an < i that I , therefore , cannot remain silent , you will think it ironical , and disbelieve it * And ify again , I say that the greatest good possible for man is , to discuss daily concern ing virtue , and the other matters on which you hear me converse and examine myself and others , and that to live an unexamined life is not endurable , you will still less believe me . The fact , however , is as I say , but it is not easy to make it apparent . .
I am not used to pronounce myself deserving of any evil . If I had money , I would estimate my penalty at as much money as I was able to pay * for it would have been no damage to me ; but now—I have none ; unless you are willing to fix the penalty at what I am able to pay . Perhaps I could pay as much as a silver mina : at this , therefore , I rate the penalty . Plato here , and Criton , and Critobutus , and Apollodorus , O Athenians , bid me rate it at thirty minae , and they undertake to be my sureties . I do so , therefore * and their security is adequate .
After the Declaration of the Sentence . It is for the sake of but a short span , O Athenians , that you have incurred the imputation , from those who wish to speak evil against the city , of having put to death Socrates , a wise man , ( for thosev who are inclined to reproach you , will say thatttiijiS ^ Bfe eVen if I am not . )
. Had yoil waited a short time , th ^ tiling wouMP av c happened without your ageticy ; 'for you see my yea # ; ' ^^^ ar ^^^ fenced in'life , and near to death . I address this hot to aKo ^^ u , bii ^ B those who have voted for the" capital Behtence . And 1 irflH p w s ' aH ^; the same persons : Perhaps you think that I have been c ^ S | pnne «^ tn want of skill in such mode ' s of working tipbn your mindl ^ s I rrtffl g nave ^ m |) loyed with success if 1 * had thought it ri glit to em ^ jjr all ift in order to escape from bdnderhhatlon . Far from it . I havS % een co ^ qltoned , not for want of tihingW ' to say but for want of daring M ^ shanieWssness ; because I did not chod 8 e to say to you the things wnicft ^ would have been pleasantest to j | r 6 iito hear , weeping and lamenting , awl doing and saying other things which I affirm to be unworthy of me ; as you are accustomed to see others tlo . But neither did I then think fit , because bf my danger , 1
to do anythingunworthy of a freeman ; nor do I now repent of having thus defended myself ; I would far rather have made the one defence and die , than have made the other and live . Neither in a court of justice , nor in war , titight We to make it our 6 bject , that , whatever happen , we may escape death . In battle , it is often evident that a man may save his life
by throwing away his arms , and imploring mercy 6 f his pursuers ; and in all other dangers there are many contrivances by which a person may get otit with life , if he dare do or say everything . The difficulty , O Athenians , is not to escape from death , but from guilt ; for guilt is swifter than death , and runs faster . And now I , being old , and slow of foot , have been overtaken by death , the slower of the two ; but my accusers , who are brisk and vehement , by wickedness , the swifter . We quit this
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17 f t Plato ' s Dialogues ; the Apology of Socrates .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/32/
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