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But that this is the case I will endeavor to prove to you. Come, then, Melitus, tell me, do you not consider it of the greatest importance that the youth should be made as virtuous as possible? Mel. I do. Socr.
SOCR. Shalt thou then a sound so loud and profound from thy belly diminutive send, And shall not the high and the infinite sky go thundering on without end? For both, you will find, on an impulse of wind and similar causes depend.
And the young, moreover, learn these things from me, which they might purchase for a drachma, at most, in the orchestra, and so ridicule Socrates, if he pretended they were his own, especially since they are so absurd? I ask then, by Jupiter, do I appear to you to believe that there is no god? Mel. No, by Jupiter, none whatever. Socr.
I conjecture this from a dream which I had this very night, not long ago, and you seem very opportunely to have refrained from waking me. Cri. But what was this dream? Socr. A beautiful and majestic woman, clad in white garments seemed to approach me, and to call to me and say, "Socrates, three days hence you will reach fertile Pythia" . Cri. What a strange dream, Socrates! Socr.
STREPS. What! Vortex? that's something I own. I knew not before, that Zeus was no more, but Vortex was placed on his throne! But I have not yet heard to what cause you referred the thunder's majestical roar. SOCR. Yes, 'tis they, when on high full of water they fly, and then, as I told you before, By compression impelled, as they clash, are compelled a terrible clatter to make.
Do not the bad work some evil to those that are continually near them, but the good some good? Mel. Certainly. Socr. Is there any one that wishes to be injured rather than benefited by his associates? Answer, good man; for the law requires you to answer. Is there any one who wishes to be injured? Mel. No, surely. Socr.
Aristophanes, in the Clouds, puts on the stage a coarse personage named Strepsiades, who points out to Socrates how he must manage so as not to pay his debts: "Streps. Hast thou seen among druggists that beautiful transparent stone that they employ for lighting a fire? "Socr. Thou meanest glass. "Streps. Yes. "Socr. Well! what wouldst thou do with it? "Streps.
Is not this rightly resolved? Cri. It is. Socr. Therefore we should respect the good, but not the bad? Cri. Yes. Socr. And are not the good those of the wise, and the bad those of the foolish? Cri. How can it be otherwise? Socr. Come, then: how, again, were the following points settled?
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.
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.
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