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 1 Intro|        relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence
 2 Intro|      of Socrates, according to Plato’s conception of him, appearing
 3 Intro|       disciple. The Apology of Plato may be compared generally
 4 Intro|      was not said, and is only Plato’s view of the situation.
 5 Intro|       s view of the situation. Plato was not, like Xenophon,
 6 Intro|        writers. The Apology of Plato is not the report of what
 7 Intro|         It is significant that Plato is said to have been present
 8 Intro|     are the only ones in which Plato makes mention of himself.
 9 Intro| himself. The circumstance that Plato was to be one of his sureties
10 Intro|      cast anew in the mould of Plato.~There is not much in the
11 Intro|    been present to the mind of Plato when depicting the sufferings
12 Intro|  Socrates agree generally with Plato; but they have lost the
13 Intro|        court (including ‘this’ Plato), to witness on his behalf;
14 Intro|    defence was that with which Plato has provided him. But leaving
15 Intro|       was the impression which Plato in the Apology intended
16 Intro|       about them. According to Plato (compare Phaedo; Symp.),
17 Intro|       second question, whether Plato meant to represent Socrates
18 Intro|   which is also the feeling of Plato in other passages (Laws).
19 Intro|     only to the imagination of Plato. The arguments of those
20 Intro|       Socrates, partly because Plato would not have been guilty
21 Intro|        produced on the mind of Plato, we cannot certainly determine;
22 Intro|      Socrates does not prevent Plato from introducing them together
23 Text |      of Ariston, whose brother Plato is present; and Aeantodorus,
24 Text |        I propose that penalty: Plato, Crito, Critobulus, and