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 1 Intro|           in a formula. The first say, ‘Socrates is an evil-doer
 2 Intro|          about all that he has to say. He will not entreat the
 3 Intro|   inconsiderate.~He would like to say a few words, while there
 4 Intro|       nature to make. He will not say or do anything that might
 5 Intro|           rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular
 6 Intro|   certainly determine; nor can we say how he would or must have
 7 Text |         force of my eloquence. To say this, when they were certain
 8 Text |            what do the slanderers say? They shall be my prosecutors,
 9 Text |        answer. And from what they say of this part of the charge
10 Text |     knowledge of the kind.~I dare say, Athenians, that some one
11 Text |   interrupt me, even if I seem to say something extravagant. For
12 Text |   refutation in my hand. I should say to him, ‘Here is a man who
13 Text |     confess the truth, but I must say that there is hardly a person
14 Text |           or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do
15 Text |          nothing at all, as I may say, and I was sure that they
16 Text |         confounded Socrates, they say; this villainous misleader
17 Text |          corrupt the youth; but I say, O men of Athens, that Meletus
18 Text |       silent, and have nothing to say. But is not this rather
19 Text |       court.~What, do you mean to say, Meletus, that they are
20 Text |  improvers, then. And what do you say of the audience,—do they
21 Text |     trainer of horses, that is to say, does them good, and others
22 Text |            whether you and Anytus say yes or no. Happy indeed
23 Text |           ones? Answer, friend, I say; the question is one which
24 Text | unintentionally?~Intentionally, I say.~But you have just admitted
25 Text |         intentionally, too—so you say, although neither I nor
26 Text |         you would have nothing to say to me and refused to teach
27 Text |         corrupt the youth, as you say.~Yes, that I say emphatically.~
28 Text |           as you say.~Yes, that I say emphatically.~Then, by the
29 Text |           my charge,—but only you say that they are not the same
30 Text |        spiritual agencies,—so you say and swear in the affidavit;
31 Text |         spirits are gods, and you say first that I do not believe
32 Text |       last of them.~Some one will say: And are you not ashamed,
33 Text |      listening to my words—if you say to me, Socrates, this time
34 Text |     Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you, do as Anytus bids
35 Text |          I have something more to say, at which you may be inclined
36 Text |           you to spare me. I dare say that you may feel out of
37 Text |        you another gadfly. When I say that I am given to you by
38 Text |           virtue; such conduct, I say, would be unlike human nature.
39 Text |           of my accusers dares to say that I have ever exacted
40 Text |    witness to the truth of what I say—my poverty.~Some one may
41 Text |     convincing evidence of what I say, not words only, but what
42 Text |          or other kinsmen, should say what evil their families
43 Text |          way for him. And let him say, if he has any testimony
44 Text |         among you,—mind, I do not say that there is,—to him I
45 Text |          better than women. And I say that these things ought
46 Text |         been acquitted. And I may say, I think, that I have escaped
47 Text |       have escaped Meletus. I may say more; for without the assistance
48 Text |          penalty fairly, I should say that maintenance in the
49 Text |          wrong myself. I will not say of myself that I deserve
50 Text |     certainly be an evil? Shall I say imprisonment? And why should
51 Text |          and cannot pay. And if I say exile (and this may possibly
52 Text |        their sakes.~Some one will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot
53 Text |        tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience
54 Text |       that I am serious; and if I say again that daily to discourse
55 Text |       likely to believe me. Yet I say what is true, although a
56 Text |           my friends here, bid me say thirty minae, and they will
57 Text |  detractors of the city, who will say that you killed Socrates,
58 Text |           I have another thing to say to them: you think that
59 Text |            if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty,
60 Text |     suppose: far otherwise. For I say that there will be more
61 Text |     anything which I was going to say; and yet I have often been
62 Text |       unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration
63 Text |          that any man, I will not say a private man, but even
64 Text |      death be of such a nature, I say that to die is gain; for
65 Text |          place, and there, as men say, all the dead abide, what