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1 Intro| oracle to be the wisest of men? Reflecting upon the answer,
2 Intro| and private affairs. Young men of the richer sort had made
3 Intro| citizens?’ (Compare Meno.) ‘All men everywhere.’ But how absurd,
4 Intro| which says that he teaches men not to receive the gods
5 Intro| continue to preach to all men of all ages the necessity
6 Intro| could have corrupted the men with whom he had to live;
7 Intro| his life long, ‘a king of men.’ He would rather not appear
8 Text | appearing before you, O men of Athens, in the character
9 Text | themselves—all this class of men are most difficult to deal
10 Text | able to persuade the young men to leave their own citizens
11 Text | you had been like other men: tell us, then, what is
12 Text | tell you the entire truth. Men of Athens, this reputation
13 Text | my character. And here, O men of Athens, I must beg you
14 Text | that I am the wisest of men? And yet he is a god, and
15 Text | just this: I found that the men most in repute were all
16 Text | themselves to be the wisest of men in other things in which
17 Text | others: but the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only
18 Text | show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing;
19 Text | illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who, like
20 Text | is another thing:—young men of the richer classes, who
21 Text | in a moment. And this, O men of Athens, is the truth
22 Text | the youth; but I say, O men of Athens, that Meletus
23 Text | and is so eager to bring men to trial from a pretended
24 Text | affirm that I teach other men to acknowledge some gods,
25 Text | sun or moon, like other men?~I assure you, judges, that
26 Text | I cannot help thinking, men of Athens, that Meletus
27 Text | earnest.~I should like you, O men of Athens, to join me in
28 Text | human beings?...I wish, men of Athens, that he would
29 Text | convinced by you that the same men can believe in divine and
30 Text | been the death of many good men, and will probably be the
31 Text | of disgrace. And this, O men of Athens, is a true saying.~
32 Text | would be my conduct, O men of Athens, if I who, when
33 Text | searching into myself and other men, I were to desert my post
34 Text | knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend
35 Text | believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps
36 Text | let me go, I should reply: Men of Athens, I honour and
37 Text | an untruth. Wherefore, O men of Athens, I say to you,
38 Text | have to die many times.~Men of Athens, do not interrupt,
39 Text | if I had been like other men, I should not have neglected
40 Text | think. For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had
41 Text | state which I ever held, O men of Athens, was that of senator:
42 Text | first thing? No indeed, men of Athens, neither I nor
43 Text | of cross-examining other men has been imposed upon me
44 Text | am a man, and like other men, a creature of flesh and
45 Text | some way superior to other men. And if those among you
46 Text | their conduct! I have seen men of reputation, when they
47 Text | them that the most eminent men of Athens, to whom the Athenians
48 Text | indictment of Meletus. For if, O men of Athens, by force of persuasion
49 Text | why I am not grieved, O men of Athens, at the vote of
50 Text | I propose on my part, O men of Athens? Clearly that
51 Text | Doubtless some good thing, O men of Athens, if he has his
52 Text | maintenance in the Prytaneum, O men of Athens, a reward which
53 Text | to endure me. No indeed, men of Athens, that is not very
54 Text | there, as here, the young men will flock to me; and if
55 Text | they are well.~And now, O men who have condemned me, I
56 Text | and in the hour of death men are gifted with prophetic
57 Text | you think that by killing men you can prevent some one
58 Text | unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and
59 Text | another place, and there, as men say, all the dead abide,
60 Text | Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too! What infinite
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