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 1 Intro|       who does not receive the gods whom the state receives,
 2 Intro| teaches men not to receive the gods whom the city receives,
 3 Intro|    receives, and has other new gods. ‘Is that the way in which
 4 Intro|       it is.’ ‘Has he only new gods, or none at all?’ ‘None
 5 Intro|      indictment: ‘There are no gods, but Socrates believes in
 6 Intro|       existence of the sons of gods, which is absurd.’~Leaving
 7 Intro|      has been permitted by the gods, because it was better for
 8 Intro|       proves his belief in the gods because he believes in the
 9 Intro|        believes in the sons of gods, is he serious or jesting?
10 Intro|    that he must believe in the gods because he believes in the
11 Intro|        believes in the sons of gods, we must remember that this
12 Intro|  Socrates does not receive the gods whom the city receives,
13 Intro|  cannot believe in the sons of gods or in divine things. The
14 Intro|     divinities are the sons of gods is not to be regarded as
15 Intro|        that he believed in the gods whom the State approved.
16 Intro|       existence of the popular gods; he had no means of knowing
17 Intro|   Apollo or Zeus, or the other gods whom the State approves,
18 Text |        in the existence of the gods. And they are many, and
19 Text |       the earth, and having no gods, and making the worse appear
20 Text |        does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other
21 Text |    them not to acknowledge the gods which the state acknowledges,
22 Text |     emphatically.~Then, by the gods, Meletus, of whom we are
23 Text |        men to acknowledge some gods, and therefore that I do
24 Text | therefore that I do believe in gods, and am not an entire atheist—
25 Text |     that they are not the same gods which the city recognizes—
26 Text |        that they are different gods. Or, do you mean that I
27 Text |        of not believing in the gods, and yet of believing in
28 Text |  demigods? Are they not either gods or the sons of gods?~Certainly
29 Text |     either gods or the sons of gods?~Certainly they are.~But
30 Text |        demigods or spirits are gods, and you say first that
31 Text |       that I do not believe in gods, and then again that I do
32 Text |     again that I do believe in gods; that is, if I believe in
33 Text |       the illegitimate sons of gods, whether by the nymphs or
34 Text |      believe that there are no gods if they are the sons of
35 Text |        if they are the sons of gods? You might as well affirm
36 Text |     not believe that there are gods and demigods and heroes.~
37 Text |   denying the existence of the gods, if I disobeyed the oracle
38 Text |      believe that there are no gods, and in defending should
39 Text |      do believe that there are gods, and in a sense higher than
40 Text |       are not neglected by the gods; nor has my own approaching