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Updated: May 5, 2025
STREPS. Well, it must be confessed, that chimes in with the rest: your words I am forced to believe. Yet before I had dreamed that the rain-water streamed from Zeus and his chamber-pot sieve. But whence then, my friend, does the thunder descend? that does make us quake with affright! SOCR. Why, 'tis they, I declare, as they roll through the air. STREPS. What the clouds? did I hear you aright?
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.
Come, then, whether do you accuse me here, as one that corrupts the youth, and makes them more depraved, designedly or undesignedly? Mel. Designedly, I say. Socr.
For so it appears to me, both long since and now, but if you in any respect think otherwise, say so and inform me. But if you persist in your former opinions, hear what follows. Cri. I do persist in them, and think with you. Speak on, then. Socr. I say next, then, or rather I ask; whether when a man has promised to do things that are just he ought to do them, or evade his promise? Cri.
But, Melitus, do those who attend the public assemblies corrupt the younger men? or do they all make them better? Mel. They too. Socr. All the Athenians, therefore, as it seems, make them honorable and good, except me; but I alone corrupt them. Do you say so? Mel. I do assert this very thing. Socr. You charge me with great ill-fortune.
SOCR. And how, you old fool, of a dark-ages school, and an antidiluvian wit, If the perjured they strike, and not all men alike, have they never Cleonymus hit? Then of Simon again, and Theorus explain: known perjurers, yet they escape. But he smites his own shrine with these arrows divine, and "Sunium, Attica's cape," And the ancient gnarled oaks: now what prompted those strokes?
Do I not, then, like the rest of mankind, believe that the sun and moon are gods? Mel. No, by Jupiter, O judges! for he says that the sun is a stone, and the moon an earth. Socr.
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