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1 Intro| tragic pathos in the face of death. The facts of his life are
2 Intro| respecting the trial and death of Socrates agree generally
3 Intro| profession which leads him to death? Why?—because he must remain
4 Intro| imagine that he knows whether death is a good or an evil; and
5 Intro| commanding. Anytus proposes death as the penalty: and what
6 Intro| he does not know whether death, which Anytus proposes,
7 Intro| securities.~(He is condemned to death.)~He is an old man already,
8 Intro| unrighteousness is swifter than death; that penalty has already
9 Intro| overtaken his accusers as death will soon overtake him.~
10 Intro| them. They have put him to death in order to escape the necessity
11 Intro| of their lives. But his death ‘will be the seed’ of many
12 Intro| conjectures, is that the death to which he is going is
13 Intro| not an evil. For either death is a long sleep, the best
14 Intro| fear of any one suffering death for his opinions.~Nothing
15 Intro| good man either in life or death, and his own death has been
16 Intro| life or death, and his own death has been permitted by the
17 Intro| his own end, for life and death are simply indifferent to
18 Intro| bound even ‘in the throat of death.’ With his accusers he will
19 Intro| uncertain;—he also conceives of death as a long sleep (in this
20 Intro| good man either in life or death. His absolute truthfulness
21 Intro| Translation.) What effect the death of Socrates produced on
22 Text | world, which has been the death of many good men, and will
23 Text | and will probably be the death of many more; there is no
24 Text | utterly despised danger and death, and instead of fearing
25 Text | Achilles any thought of death and danger? For wherever
26 Text | he should not think of death or of anything but of disgrace.
27 Text | like any other man, facing death—if now, when, as I conceive
28 Text | my post through fear of death, or any other fear; that
29 Text | because I was afraid of death, fancying that I was wise
30 Text | not wise. For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of
31 Text | and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear
32 Text | prosecuted I must be put to death; (or if not that I ought
33 Text | injustice from any fear of death, and that ‘as I should have
34 Text | feared imprisonment and death. This happened in the days
35 Text | they wanted to put him to death. This was a specimen of
36 Text | I cared not a straw for death, and that my great and only
37 Text | I am or am not afraid of death is another question, of
38 Text | drachmae.~And so he proposes death as the penalty. And what
39 Text | afraid of the penalty of death which Meletus proposes?
40 Text | When I do not know whether death is a good or an evil, why
41 Text | perceive, and not far from death. I am speaking now not to
42 Text | who have condemned me to death. And I have another thing
43 Text | use every way of escaping death. Often in battle there can
44 Text | pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there
45 Text | are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to
46 Text | friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness;
47 Text | for that runs faster than death. I am old and move slowly,
48 Text | to suffer the penalty of death,—they too go their ways
49 Text | die, and in the hour of death men are gifted with prophetic
50 Text | those of us who think that death is an evil are in error.
51 Text | great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two
52 Text | one of two things—either death is a state of nothingness
53 Text | undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain.
54 Text | with the others. Now if death be of such a nature, I say
55 Text | only a single night. But if death is the journey to another
56 Text | ancient hero who has suffered death through an unjust judgment;
57 Text | they do not put a man to death for asking questions: assuredly
58 Text | be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty,
59 Text | either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected
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