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But Demetrius manifestly is eager not only to exempt Aristides but Socrates likewise, from poverty, as from a great evil; telling us that the latter had not only a house of his own, but also seventy minae put out at interest with Crito.
"What I always say, Crito," he replied, "nothing new that by taking care of yourselves you will oblige both me and mine, and yourselves, whatever you do, though you should not now promise it, and if you neglect yourselves, and will not live, as it were, in the footsteps of what has been now and formerly said, even though you should promise much at present, and that earnestly, you will do no good at all."
At length Crito admits that he has no answer to make, and Socrates resolves to submit himself to the will of Providence. Socr. Why have you come at this hour, Crito? Is it not very early? Cri. It is. Socr. About what time? Cri. Scarce day-break. Socr. I wonder how the keeper of the prison came to admit you. Cri.
"I was almost certain what you would say," answered Crito, "but he has been some time pestering me." "Never mind him," he rejoined.
However, Crito, it would be disconsonant for a man at my time of life to repine because he must needs die. Cri. But others, Socrates, at your age have been involved in similar calamities, yet their age has not hindered their repining at their present fortune. Socr. So it is. But why did you come so early? Cri.
And, as Crito said for all ages, after the sun that was on the hilltops when Socrates took the poison had set and darkness had come: "Of all the men of his time, he was the wisest and justest and best." We ask ourselves if he was the gift of democracy. And we find ourselves answering: his peculiar excellence could have come of no other order of society.
"What I always say, Crito," he replied, "nothing new; that by taking care of yourselves you will oblige both me and mine and yourselves, whatever you do, though you should not now promise it; but if you neglect yourselves, and will not live as it were in the footsteps of what has been now and formerly said, even though you should promise much at present, and that earnestly, you will do no good at all."
And he felt them himself, and said: "When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end." "The debt shall be paid," said Crito; "is there anything else?" There was no answer to this question; but in a minute or two a movement was heard, and the attendants uncovered him; his eyes were set, and Crito closed his eyes and mouth.
Let Plato tell of that last hour he has done it once for all: When he had done speaking, Crito said, "And have you any commands for us, Socrates anything to say about your children, or any other matter in which we can serve you?"
But Socrates would swear by Hercules, or by the dog, or by some other classic object, that he had an engagement with the rhetoricians, or with the sophists, or with Alcibiades, or with Crito, or with some of the rest of the boys he called them philosophers, but we know what he meant by that.
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