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I would not have him sorrow at my hard lot, or say at the burial, 'Thus we lay out Socrates, or, 'Thus we follow him to the grave or bury him'; for false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Be of good cheer then, my dear Crito, and say that you are burying my body only, and do with that as is usual, and as you think best."
Neither ought one who is injured to return the injury, as the multitude think, since it is on no account right to act unjustly. Cri. It appears not. Socr. What, then? Is it right to do evil, Crito, or not? Cri. Surely it is not right, Socrates. Socr. But what? To do evil in return when one has been evil-entreated, is that right, or not? Cri. By no means. Socr.
After he had bathed, and taken leave of his children and the women of his family the officer of the Eleven comes in to intimate to him that it is now time to drink the poison. Crito urges a little delay, as the sun had not yet set; but Socrates refuses to make himself ridiculous by showing such a fondness for life.
If ye do this, both I and my sons shall have met with just treatment at your hands. But it is now time to depart for me to die, for you to live. But which of us is going to a better state is unknown to every one but God. Aristophanes. "Iliad," lib. xviii. ver. 94, etc. See the "Crito," sec. 5. ouden legei, literally, "he says nothing:" on se trompe, ou l'on vous impose, Cousin.
Many of them, however, are here present, whom I see: first, Crito, my contemporary and fellow-burgher, father of this Critobulus; then Lysanias of Sphettus, father of this Æschines; again, Antiphon of Cephisus, father of Epigenes.
Then he turned to us, and added with a smile: "I can not make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who has been talking and conducting the argument; he fancies that I am the other Socrates whom he will soon see, a dead body and he asks, 'How shall he bury me? And though I have spoken many words in the endeavor to show that when I have drunk the poison I shall leave you and go to the joys of the blessed these words of mine, with which I comforted you and myself, have had, as I perceive, no effect upon Crito.
"Nothing particular," he said; "only, as I have always told you, I would have you to look to your own conduct; that is a service which you may always be doing to me and mine as well as to yourselves." ... "We will do our best," said Crito. "But in what way would you have us bury you?" "In any way that you like; only you must get hold of me, and take care that I do not walk away from you."
And, at the same time smiling gently, and looking round on us, he said, "I cannot persuade Crito, my friends, that I am that Socrates who is now conversing with you, and who methodizes each part of the discourse; but he thinks that I am he whom he will shortly behold dead, and asks how he should bury me.
Well, perhaps I could afford a mina, and therefore I propose that penalty: Plato, Crito, Critobulus, and Apollodorus, my friends here, bid me say thirty minae, and they will be the sureties. Let thirty minae be the penalty; for which sum they will be ample security to you.
Do you imagine that a state can subsist and not be overthrown in which the decisions of law have no power, but are set aside and overthrown by individuals?" What will be our answer, Crito, to these and the like words?
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