The death of Socrates
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the death of Socrates · death · die · died · drinking the poison · his death · his end · his execution · sentence of death · the end
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1 expressionSocrates' death2 mentions
Phaedo (Greek) · Memorabilia (Greek)
What took place at his death, Phaedo?
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Phaedo
The death by poison of Socrates, narrated in physical detail from the drinking of the cup to the closing of his eyes.
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;
What took place at his death, Phaedo?
Vitae philosophorum
The execution of Socrates by hemlock, narrated and later commemorated by the author.
He was put in prison, and a few days afterwards drank the hemlock, after much noble discourse which Plato records in the Phaedo.
Drink then, being in Zeus’s palace, O Socrates;
He had a dream that some one said to him:
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?