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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Good! and when we meet again, we will go with the children together into the woods." "Socrates was not what I thought he was." "Go! I want to sleep." She went, but met in the doorway Plato and Crito. "The hour approaches, friends," said Socrates wearily, and with feverish eyes. "Are you calm, Master?" "To say the truth, I am quite calm.
For this good appears to me to be also common to us; and at the same time it will be an apology for you, if you can persuade us to believe what you say." "I will endeavor to do so," he said. "But first let us attend to Crito here, and see what it is he seems to have for some time wished to say."
Then turning to us, he said, "How charming the man is; since I have been in prison he has always been coming to see me, and at times he would talk to me, and was as good as could be, and now see how generously he sorrows for me. But we must do as he says, Crito; let the cup be brought if the poison is prepared; if not, let the attendant prepare some."
And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end. He was beginning to grow cold about the groin, when he uncovered his face, for he had covered himself up, and said they were his last words he said: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else?
Nor was I the first, for Crito, when he found himself unable to restrain his tears, had got up and moved away, and I followed; and at that moment, Apollodorus, who had been weeping all the time, broke out into a loud cry, which made cowards of us all. Socrates alone retained his calmness.
In leaving the prison against the will of the Athenians, do I wrong any? or rather do I not wrong those whom I ought least to wrong? Do I not desert the principles which were acknowledged by us to be just? What do you say? Crito: I can not tell, Socrates; for I do not know. Are you going by an act of yours to overturn us the laws and the whole state, as far as in you lies?
"For be well assured," he said, "most excellent Crito, that to speak improperly is not only culpable as to the thing itself, but likewise occasions some injury to our souls. You must have a good courage, then, and say that you bury my body, and bury it in such a manner as is pleasing to you, and as you think is most agreeable to our laws."
When he had walked about for a while his legs began to grow heavy, so he lay down on his back; and his body, from the feet upward, gradually grew cold and stiff. His last words were, "Crito, we owe a cock to Æsculapius; pay it, therefore, and do not neglect it."
First, then, therefore, answer us this, whether we speak the truth or not in affirming that you agreed to be governed by us in deed, though not in word?" What shall we say to this, Crito? Can we do otherwise than assent? Cri. We must needs do so, Socrates. Socr.
From thenceforward Crito contracted a strict friendship with Archedemus, and all his friends had likewise a great respect for him. Socrates, meeting one day with Diodorus, addressed him thus: "If one of your slaves ran away, would you give yourself any trouble to find him?" "Yes, certainly," answered he; "and I would give public notice, and promise a reward to any that brought him to me."
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