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Title: Apology
Author: Plato
Translator: Benjamin Jowett
Release date: February 1, 1999 [eBook #1656]
Most recently updated: October 4, 2020
Language: English
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Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger
Apology
by Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION
APOLOGY
INTRODUCTION.
In what relation the "Apology" of Plato stands to the real defence of
Socrates, there are no means of determining. It certainly agrees in tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the
"Memorabilia" that Socrates might have been acquitted "if in any moderate degree he would have conciliated the favour of the dicasts;"
and who informs us in another passage, on the testimony of Hermogenes, the friend of Socrates, that he had no wish to live; and that the divine sign refused…