Status Updates From Apology of Socrates

Another version of Socrates trial/last hours/days.

We know, I fancy, what such corrupting influences are; & perhaps you will tell us if you know of any one who, under my influence, has been changed from a religous into an irreligious man; who, frm being sober-minded, has become prodigal; frm being a moderate drinker has become a wine-bibber & a drunkard; frm being a lover of healthy honest toil has become effeminate, or under the thrall of some other wicked pleasure.

Sokrates som besatt.

Hermogenes: he roundly put it to him whether he ought not to be debating the line of his defence, to which Socrates in the first instance answered: "What! do I not seem to you to have spent my whole life in meditating my defence?" And when Hermogenes asked him, "How?" he added: "By a lifelong persistence in doing nothing wrong, and that I take to be the finest practice for his defence which a man could devise."

But none of these writers has brought out clearly the fact that Socrates had come to regard death as for himself preferable to life; and consequently there is just a suspicion of foolhardiness in the arrogancy of his address.