Socrates' death
event · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
death · die · died · drinking the poison · his death · his end · sentence of death · the death of Socrates · the end
in the texts
Phaedo
The execution of Socrates by poison, the central event framing the entire dialogue.
What took place at his death, Phaedo?
The chill had now reached the region about the groin, and uncovering his face, which had been covered, he said—and these were his last words— Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius.
Up to that time most of us had been able to restrain our tears fairly well, but when we watched him drinking and saw that he had drunk the poison, we could do so no longer, but in spite of myself my tears rolled down in floods, so that I wrapped my face in my cloak and wept for myself;
Memorabilia
Condemned death of Socrates, represented as noble, serene, divinely acceptable, and unjustly imposed by others.
In fact it is admitted that there is no record of death more nobly borne.
First, he had already reached such an age, that had he not died then, death must have come to him soon after.
Then I said, Don’t you see, Socrates, that the juries in our courts are apt to be misled by argument, so that they often put the innocent to death, and acquit the guilty?