death sentence of Socrates
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condemnation · condemned · death · death-penalty · his being sentenced to death · to be executed · الحكم عليه بالموت
spoken of as
1 expressionThe death sentence of Socrates1 mention
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn (Arabic)
and that was among the most decisive of the causes of his being sentenced to death.
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The condemnation of Socrates, said to have been caused as decisively as anything by his conviction of the soundness of his private daimon and his refusal to doubt the claim.
and that was among the most decisive of the causes of his being sentenced to death.
Apology
The capital punishment imposed on Socrates, which he treats as preferable to old age and morally harmless if unjust.
for even yet he affords us far more noble themes for song than does Odysseus, the man who unjustly put him to death.
A man named Apollodorus, who was there with him, a very ardent disciple of Socrates, but otherwise simple, exclaimed, But, Socrates, what I find it hardest to bear is that I see you being put to death unjustly!
Now of all the acts for which the laws have prescribed the death-penalty—temple robbery, burglary, enslavement, treason to the state—not even my adversaries themselves charge me with having committed any of these.