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  1 Crito|            answer; ‘or were you to abide by the sentence of the state?’
  2 Crito|           in Thessaly, having gone abroad in order that you may get
  3 Crito|          are still alive, although absent from them; for your friends
  4 Crito|        attempt; but if not, I will abstain. The other considerations
  5 Crito|             will be exposed if you accomplish your intentions; you, above
  6 Crito|         escape. This can be easily accomplished by his friends, who will
  7 Crito|              These are the sort of accusations to which, as we were saying,
  8 Crito|          of the city, and made our acquaintance, he may go where he pleases
  9 Crito|       especial favourites, and you acquiesced in our government of you;
 10 Crito|         care for virtue in all his actions, like yourself. And indeed,
 11 Crito|           and dishonour to him who acts unjustly? Shall we say so
 12      | actually
 13 Crito|             the law would probably add: ‘Answer, Socrates, instead
 14 Crito|         which we order justice and administer the state, and still remains,
 15 Crito|          by us? Are all our former admissions which were made within a
 16 Crito|            begin in error when you advise that we should regard the
 17 Crito|         states or their laws: your affections did not go beyond us and
 18      | Again
 19 Crito|            often repeated in later ages. The crimes of Alcibiades,
 20 Crito|        CRITO: No, I came some time ago.~SOCRATES: Then why did
 21 Crito|          later ages. The crimes of Alcibiades, Critias, and Charmides,
 22      | alone
 23 Crito|      impose them, but give him the alternative of obeying or convincing
 24 Crito|            have been watching with amazement your peaceful slumbers;
 25      | among
 26 Crito|         means, which are certainly ample, are at your service, and
 27 Crito|           by the inhabitants as an amusing tale. But if he offends
 28 Crito|            mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded
 29 Crito|            the habit of asking and answering questions. Tell us,—What
 30 Crito|         from the conclusion. It is anticipated at the beginning by the
 31 Crito|           I ask, why I rather than anybody else? they will justly retort
 32      | anywhere
 33 Crito|     nurture and education. But you appear to be choosing the easier
 34 Crito|          this is true, what is the application? In leaving the prison against
 35 Crito|          not to be repining at the approach of death.~CRITO: And yet
 36 Crito|         disregards the opinion and approval of the one, and regards
 37 Crito|          would be no difficulty in arguing that Socrates should have
 38 Crito|          recognize the hand of the artist. Whether any one who has
 39 Crito|            you are in the habit of asking and answering questions.
 40 Crito|       principle in us which may be assumed to be improved by justice
 41 Crito|            if I were to express my astonishment at their words, the law
 42 Crito|            for I highly value your attempts to persuade me to do so,
 43 Crito|          of gymnastics supposed to attend to the praise and blame
 44 Crito|         the whole business will be attributed entirely to our want of
 45 Crito|       CRITO: Yes; that is what the authorities say.~SOCRATES: But I do
 46 Crito|      maintained by many persons of authority, was to the effect, as I
 47 Crito|       secondly, because we are the authors of his education; thirdly,
 48 Crito|         the least evil in order to avoid the greatest, and to show
 49 Crito|          for that reason I did not awake you, because I wished to
 50 Crito|        nothing, instead of at once awakening me?~CRITO: I should not
 51 Crito|      running away and turning your back upon the compacts and agreements
 52 Crito|           be regarded, and not the bad?~CRITO: Yes.~SOCRATES: And
 53 Crito|          have fixed the penalty at banishment; the state which refuses
 54 Crito|       tranquil manner in which you bear this calamity.~SOCRATES:
 55      | become
 56      | becoming
 57 Crito|           now that this chance has befallen me, I cannot repudiate my
 58      | begin
 59      | beginning
 60 Crito|         have a good deal to say on behalf of the law which requires
 61      | behind
 62 Crito|          God, I am willing; but my belief is that there will be a
 63 Crito|      neither will you nor any that belong to you be happier or holier
 64 Crito|        only too clear. But, oh! my beloved Socrates, let me entreat
 65 Crito|           citizenship? Is this the benefit which you will confer upon
 66 Crito|         practicable or possible; I beseech you therefore, Socrates,
 67 Crito|            justified, Socrates, in betraying your own life when you might
 68      | beyond
 69 Crito|        another, if you do as Crito bids. Now you depart in innocence,
 70 Crito|      against those of us who after birth regulate the nurture and
 71 Crito|           attend to the praise and blame and opinion of every man,
 72 Crito|          out of her; the halt, the blind, the maimed, were not more
 73 Crito|          is one of the noblest and boldest figures of speech which
 74 Crito|     agreement, which he cannot now break without dishonour to himself
 75 Crito|            doer of evil. But if he breaks agreements, and returns
 76 Crito|        fair and comely, clothed in bright raiment, who called to me
 77 Crito|            him before the dawn has broken; he himself has been warned
 78 Crito|           I reflect that the whole business will be attributed entirely
 79 Crito|          allowed to enter into the calculation.~CRITO: I think that you
 80 Crito|     clothed in bright raiment, who called to me and said: O Socrates,~‘
 81 Crito|         just arrived?~CRITO: No, I came some time ago.~SOCRATES:
 82 Crito|           that they will be better cared for and educated here if
 83 Crito|          requires a sentence to be carried out. He will argue that
 84 Crito|            patriotic citizens will cast an evil eye upon you as
 85 Crito|          to answer the question of casuistry, but only to exhibit the
 86 Crito|            is a thesis about which casuists might disagree. Shelley (
 87 Crito|         will be convinced; or else cease, my dear friend, from repeating
 88 Crito|         for this very purpose; and Cebes and many others are prepared
 89 Crito|           And he ought to fear the censure and welcome the praise of
 90 Crito|      country order him; or he must change their view of what is just:
 91 Crito|            proceed, for I have not changed my mind.~SOCRATES: Then
 92 Crito|          and licence, they will be charmed to hear the tale of your
 93 Crito|           Alcibiades, Critias, and Charmides, who had been his pupils,
 94 Crito|          but a good life, is to be chiefly valued?~CRITO: Yes, that
 95 Crito|       first place that you are our child and slave, as your fathers
 96 Crito|           the sake of talking—mere childish nonsense? That is what I
 97 Crito|            be unfair. You had your choice, and might have gone either
 98 Crito|    education. But you appear to be choosing the easier part, not the
 99 Crito|     against you, and all patriotic citizens will cast an evil eye upon
100 Crito|          Socrates are drawing to a close; the fatal ship has been
101 Crito|            woman, fair and comely, clothed in bright raiment, who called
102 Crito|         who wants to emigrate to a colony or to any other city, may
103 Crito|      likeness of a woman, fair and comely, clothed in bright raiment,
104 Crito|     contract that he will do as we command him. And he who disobeys
105 Crito|      charge of education, right in commanding your father to train you
106 Crito|         turning your back upon the compacts and agreements which you
107 Crito|           questions. Tell us,—What complaint have you to make against
108 Crito|          in any haste or under any compulsion or deception, but after
109 Crito|           Athens was not likely to conciliate popular good-will. Plato,
110 Crito|            is no escaping from the conclusion. It is anticipated at the
111 Crito|            by reason, although her conclusions may be fatal to him. The
112 Crito|           the justice of their own condemnation of you. For he who is a
113 Crito|         the benefit which you will confer upon them? Or are you under
114 Crito|          of the laws, and you will confirm in the minds of the judges
115 Crito|           many more imprisonments, confiscations, deaths, frightening us
116 Crito|         never will be held, by any considerable number of persons; and those
117 Crito|       question which remains to be considered is, whether we shall do
118 Crito|           same. Then is his escape consistent with the maintenance of
119 Crito|   Athenians you have been the most constant resident in the city, which,
120 Crito|       there for seventy years more constantly than any other citizen.’
121 Crito|            subjects of our present consultation, ought we to follow the
122 Crito|    informed by his aged friend and contemporary Crito, who visits him before
123 Crito|            entered into an implied contract that he will do as we command
124 Crito|          if you can, and I will be convinced; or else cease, my dear
125 Crito|          he neither obeys them nor convinces us that our commands are
126 Crito|          alternative of obeying or convincing us;—that is what we offer,
127 Crito|           live, having an evil and corrupted body?~CRITO: Certainly not.~
128 Crito|          out of prison at no great cost; and as for the informers
129 Crito|            entirely to our want of courage. The trial need never have
130 Crito|         through our negligence and cowardice, who might have saved you,
131 Crito|            either to Lacedaemon or Crete, both which states are often
132 Crito|        repeated in later ages. The crimes of Alcibiades, Critias,
133 Crito|          The crimes of Alcibiades, Critias, and Charmides, who had
134 Crito| differently; and this last act, or crowning folly, will seem to have
135 Crito|            men do. Nor had you any curiosity to know other states or
136 Crito|     equally whether he is alive or dead?~Finally, they exhort him
137 Crito|      rhetorician, will have a good deal to say on behalf of the
138 Crito|            had been neutral in the death-struggle of Athens was not likely
139 Crito|      imprisonments, confiscations, deaths, frightening us like children
140 Crito| disinterested and not liable to be deceived by the circumstances in
141 Crito|            under any compulsion or deception, but after you have had
142 Crito|           overthrown, in which the decisions of law have no power, but
143 Crito|           the penalty, but then he declared that he preferred death
144 Crito|            our argument? Or do you decline and dissent from this? For
145 Crito|        governed according to us in deed, and not in word only? Is
146 Crito|         generation, undertakes the defence of his friend and master
147 Crito|          temper you will hear many degrading things; you will live, but
148 Crito|           made up, for the time of deliberation is over, and there is only
149 Crito|             Has the ship come from Delos, on the arrival of which
150 Crito|          being exorbitant in their demands—a little money will satisfy
151 Crito|         memory of the now restored democracy. The fact that he had been
152 Crito|            educated by us, can you deny in the first place that
153 Crito|            improved by justice and depraved by injustice? Do we suppose
154 Crito|        take them into Thessaly and deprive them of Athenian citizenship?
155 Crito|           be driven into exile and deprived of citizenship, or will
156 Crito|            them into Thessaly, and deprives them of Athenian citizenship?
157 Crito|            should say that you are deserting your own children; for you
158 Crito|       sacred laws from a miserable desire of a little more life? Perhaps
159 Crito|        common ground, and can only despise one another when they see
160 Crito|          laws, of whom you are the destroyer; and are doing what only
161 Crito|           who are hurrying on your destruction. And further I should say
162 Crito|           matter? Is the pupil who devotes himself to the practice
163 Crito|     dialogue is a perfect piece of dialectic, in which granting the ‘
164 Crito|           long he has followed the dictates of reason only and the opinion
165 Crito|           they see how widely they differ. Tell me, then, whether
166 Crito|            kill us,’ that makes no difference; but a good life, in other
167 Crito|           appears to be in any way different or not; and is to be allowed
168 Crito|            might have been managed differently; and this last act, or crowning
169 Crito|           order that you may get a dinner. And where will be your
170 Crito|         exile. And whither will he direct his footsteps? In any well-ordered
171 Crito|         about which casuists might disagree. Shelley (Prose Works) is
172 Crito|          is to be allowed by me or disallowed. That argument, which, as
173 Crito|            our age, been earnestly discoursing with one another all our
174 Crito|         now, Socrates, how sad and discreditable are the consequences, both
175 Crito|      condemned they had often held discussions, in which they agreed that
176 Crito|      health and is deteriorated by disease, would life be worth having?
177 Crito|          Now, can there be a worse disgrace than this—that I should
178 Crito|           to save him, but will be disgraced for ever if they allow him
179 Crito|           a goatskin or some other disguise, and metamorphosed as the
180 Crito|          to his children should be dismissed: the only question is whether
181 Crito|         and what affecting, in the disobedient person?~CRITO: Clearly,
182 Crito|     Thessaly, where there is great disorder and licence, they will be
183 Crito|           we and the city were not displeasing to you. Of all Athenians
184 Crito|       thought you to be of a happy disposition; but never did I see anything
185 Crito|            CRITO: Well, I will not dispute with you; but please to
186 Crito|             And if he disobeys and disregards the opinion and approval
187 Crito|    argument? Or do you decline and dissent from this? For so I have
188 Crito|          philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in
189 Crito|    children, are, I fear, only the doctrines of the multitude, who would
190 Crito|          SOCRATES: There can be no doubt about the meaning, Crito,
191 Crito|           The days of Socrates are drawing to a close; the fatal ship
192 Crito|         act and train, and eat and drink in the way which seems good
193 Crito|         and doing what?—eating and drinking in Thessaly, having gone
194 Crito|          That your friends will be driven into exile and deprived
195 Crito|     agreement with us that he will duly obey our commands; and he
196 Crito|        must injure no one at all? (E.g. compare Rep.)~CRITO: Clearly
197 Crito|          have we, at our age, been earnestly discoursing with one another
198 Crito|         fear on our account, be at ease; for in order to save you,
199 Crito|          appear to be choosing the easier part, not the better and
200 Crito|            I see anything like the easy, tranquil manner in which
201 Crito|        ought to act and train, and eat and drink in the way which
202 Crito|           all men; and doing what?—eating and drinking in Thessaly,
203 Crito|          character and the duty of educating one’s children, are, I fear,
204 Crito|           of authority, was to the effect, as I was saying, that the
205 Crito|         the city, and who wants to emigrate to a colony or to any other
206 Crito|            the punishment is to be endured in silence; and if she lead
207 Crito|           other calamity which may ensue on my remaining here must
208 Crito|        here must not be allowed to enter into the calculation.~CRITO:
209 Crito|             and still remains, has entered into an implied contract
210 Crito|        business will be attributed entirely to our want of courage.
211 Crito|           beloved Socrates, let me entreat you once more to take my
212 Crito|          and gently and reverently entreated when angry, even more than
213 Crito|       which we need not separately enumerate? In questions of just and
214 Crito|        this is true you are not on equal terms with us; nor can you
215 Crito|         true friends care for them equally whether he is alive or dead?~
216 Crito|       SOCRATES: And a good life is equivalent to a just and honorable
217 Crito|    consider, if you transgress and err in this sort of way, what
218 Crito|         And therefore you begin in error when you advise that we
219 Crito|            our state; we were your especial favourites, and you acquiesced
220 Crito|           like words? Any one, and especially a rhetorician, will have
221 Crito|   certainly.~SOCRATES: What is the exact time?~CRITO: The dawn is
222 Crito|       neighbouring cities, as, for example, Thebes or Megara, both
223      | except
224 Crito|       alive or dead?~Finally, they exhort him to think of justice
225 Crito|            they are far from being exorbitant in their demands—a little
226 Crito|        leaves them behind, does he expect that they will be better
227 Crito|           property. But he who has experience of the manner in which we
228 Crito|             you, Socrates, will be exposed if you accomplish your intentions;
229 Crito|           state?’ And if I were to express my astonishment at their
230 Crito|         citizens will cast an evil eye upon you as a subverter
231 Crito|            restored democracy. The fact that he had been neutral
232 Crito|         Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country
233 Crito|           Apol.). What will be the fairest way of considering the question?
234 Crito|          take care of them? Do you fancy that if you are an inhabitant
235 Crito|            not meet with the usual fate of orphans, there will be
236 Crito|           child and slave, as your fathers were before you? And if
237 Crito|       state; we were your especial favourites, and you acquiesced in our
238 Crito|             The third day hence to fertile Phthia shalt thou go.’ (
239      | few
240 Crito|            the noblest and boldest figures of speech which occur in
241 Crito|       whether he is alive or dead?~Finally, they exhort him to think
242 Crito|         will have no difficulty in finding friends in Thessaly and
243 Crito|            the aged friend, as the fittest person to make the proposal
244 Crito|             if you had liked, have fixed the penalty at banishment;
245 Crito|         will live, but how?—as the flatterer of all men, and the servant
246 Crito|          of mankind. Will you then flee from well-ordered cities
247 Crito|        ears, like the sound of the flute in the ears of the mystic;
248 Crito|           and you yourself, if you fly to one of the neighbouring
249 Crito|           all his life long he has followed the dictates of reason only
250 Crito|         this last act, or crowning folly, will seem to have occurred
251 Crito|         Athenians, seemed to be so fond of the state, or, in other
252 Crito|         whither will he direct his footsteps? In any well-ordered state
253 Crito|          him. None of us laws will forbid him or interfere with him.
254 Crito|          to some other Hellenic or foreign state. Whereas you, above
255 Crito|           to die. And now you have forgotten these fine sentiments, and
256 Crito|            which may be put in the form of a question:—Ought a man
257      | former
258      | formerly
259 Crito|           And now you run away and forsake your agreements. Not so,
260 Crito|          but of men. But if you go forth, returning evil for evil,
261 Crito|            only just now, when you fortunately allowed me to sleep.~CRITO:
262 Crito|          just and unjust, fair and foul, good and evil, which are
263 Crito|             confiscations, deaths, frightening us like children with hobgoblin
264 Crito|           Leave me then, Crito, to fulfil the will of God, and to
265 Crito|            not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting
266 Crito|         has come early in order to gain his consent to a plan of
267 Crito|           will his children be the gainers if he takes them into Thessaly,
268 Crito|         the city either to see the games, except once when you went
269 Crito|       writing probably in the next generation, undertakes the defence
270 Crito|            also to be soothed, and gently and reverently entreated
271 Crito|           lived and preferred to a glorious death the good which he
272 Crito|        which you were wrapped in a goatskin or some other disguise,
273 Crito|        regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?
274 Crito|       likely to conciliate popular good-will. Plato, writing probably
275 Crito|            he pleases and take his goods with him. None of us laws
276 Crito|       piece of dialectic, in which granting the ‘common principle,’
277 Crito|          this point have no common ground, and can only despise one
278 Crito|          to train you in music and gymnastic?’ Right, I should reply. ‘
279 Crito|         himself to the practice of gymnastics supposed to attend to the
280 Crito|           your eyes—you are in the habit of asking and answering
281 Crito|            stirred out of her; the halt, the blind, the maimed,
282 Crito|           we seem to recognize the hand of the artist. Whether any
283 Crito|         that even a worse evil may happen to us? Now, if you fear
284 Crito|          regarded, for what is now happening shows that they can do the
285 Crito|      always thought you to be of a happy disposition; but never did
286 Crito|     lectures in virtue? That would hardly be decent. And how will
287 Crito|           your leisure, not in any haste or under any compulsion
288 Crito|          that which is improved by health and is deteriorated by disease,
289 Crito|         ears, and prevents me from hearing any other. And I know that
290 Crito|            trusting in the will of heaven, but simply as the good
291 Crito|       government, or to some other Hellenic or foreign state. Whereas
292 Crito|            to spend their money in helping you to escape. I say, therefore,
293      | hence
294 Crito|           I say, therefore, do not hesitate on our account, and do not
295 Crito|            of the Athenians: for I highly value your attempts to persuade
296 Crito|            principles which I have hitherto honoured and revered I still
297 Crito|  frightening us like children with hobgoblin terrors (compare Apol.).
298 Crito|        just and honorable one—that holds also?~CRITO: Yes, it does.~
299 Crito|       honoured and revered I still honour, and unless we can at once
300 Crito|   principles which I have hitherto honoured and revered I still honour,
301 Crito|            of Socrates in his last hours. He must be guided by reason,
302 Crito|    to-morrow—at least, there is no human probability of this, and
303 Crito|      mystic; that voice, I say, is humming in my ears, and prevents
304 Crito|           of your enemies, who are hurrying on your destruction. And
305 Crito|            but only to exhibit the ideal of patient virtue which
306 Crito|            shalt thou go.’ (Homer, Il.)~CRITO: What a singular
307 Crito|       remains, has entered into an implied contract that he will do
308 Crito|       unjust; and we do not rudely impose them, but give him the alternative
309 Crito|         them? Or are you under the impression that they will be better
310 Crito|      punished by her, whether with imprisonment or stripes, the punishment
311 Crito|            could inflict many more imprisonments, confiscations, deaths,
312 Crito|          at large.~Whether such an incident ever really occurred as
313 Crito|           by his friends, who will incur no danger in making the
314 Crito|         aside and trampled upon by individuals?’ What will be our answer,
315 Crito|            until to-morrow; this I infer from a vision which I had
316 Crito|       justice and injustice, to be inferior to the body?~CRITO: Certainly
317 Crito|       power of the multitude could inflict many more imprisonments,
318 Crito|          seen off Sunium, as he is informed by his aged friend and contemporary
319 Crito|            will be regarded by the inhabitants as an amusing tale. But
320 Crito|          to another is the same as injuring him?~CRITO: Very true.~SOCRATES:
321 Crito|          better or worse, shall we insist on the truth of what was
322 Crito|          SOCRATES: Take a parallel instance:—if, acting under the advice
323 Crito|       about virtue and justice and institutions and laws being the best
324 Crito|           to say that we are never intentionally to do wrong, or that in
325 Crito|     exposed if you accomplish your intentions; you, above all other Athenians.’
326 Crito|            laws will forbid him or interfere with him. Any one who does
327 Crito|            the government come and interrogate me: ‘Tell us, Socrates,’
328 Crito|                                    INTRODUCTION~The Crito seems intended
329 Crito|           Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if
330 Crito|            Plato could easily have invented far more than that (Phaedr.);
331 Crito|          once when you went to the Isthmus, or to any other place unless
332 Crito|        confirm in the minds of the judges the justice of their own
333 Crito|            be happier or holier or juster in this life, or happier
334 Crito|           to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy
335 Crito|           make to them which would justify him in overturning them?
336 Crito|            anybody else? they will justly retort upon me that I above
337 Crito|          life? Perhaps not, if you keep them in a good temper; but
338 Crito|        SOCRATES: I wonder that the keeper of the prison would let
339 Crito|        moreover. I have done him a kindness.~SOCRATES: And are you only
340 Crito|          will have a difficulty in knowing what to do with yourself
341 Crito|        would let you in.~CRITO: He knows me because I often come,
342 Crito|          might have gone either to Lacedaemon or Crete, both which states
343 Crito|            an enemy. Possibly in a land of misrule like Thessaly
344      | later
345      | latter
346 Crito|     endured in silence; and if she lead us to wounds or death in
347 Crito|           and to follow whither he leads.~THE END~
348 Crito|       offends them he will have to learn another sort of lesson.
349 Crito|     Athenian citizenship? Or if he leaves them behind, does he expect
350 Crito|        what is the application? In leaving the prison against the will
351 Crito|           Will he continue to give lectures in virtue? That would hardly
352 Crito|           you made with us at your leisure, not in any haste or under
353      | less
354 Crito|           to learn another sort of lesson. Will he continue to give
355 Crito|          are disinterested and not liable to be deceived by the circumstances
356 Crito|        there is great disorder and licence, they will be charmed to
357 Crito|        made against him during his lifetime, which has been often repeated
358 Crito|       character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher,
359 Crito|           There appeared to me the likeness of a woman, fair and comely,
360 Crito|        other city, may go where he likes, retaining his property.
361 Crito|            angry with him while he lives; and their brethren the
362 Crito|            delay at all will be no longer practicable or possible;
363 Crito|            evil to any one who has lost their good opinion.~SOCRATES:
364 Crito|          from prison, set off with ludicrous particulars of the manner
365 Crito|           the halt, the blind, the maimed, were not more stationary
366 Crito|          who disobeys us is, as we maintain, thrice wrong: first, because
367 Crito|            which, as I believe, is maintained by many persons of authority,
368 Crito|         escape consistent with the maintenance of them? To this Crito is
369      | makes
370 Crito|            will incur no danger in making the attempt to save him,
371 Crito|        come on, or might have been managed differently; and this last
372 Crito|       young and foolish portion of mankind. Will you then flee from
373 Crito|           part, not the better and manlier, which would have been more
374 Crito|           those of us who regulate marriage?’ None, I should reply. ‘
375 Crito|        into existence? Your father married your mother by our aid and
376 Crito|          Crito, whether you really mean what you are saying. For
377 Crito|         chance; and if they do not meet with the usual fate of orphans,
378 Crito|             for example, Thebes or Megara, both of which are well
379 Crito|           were still recent in the memory of the now restored democracy.
380 Crito|            for the sake of talking—mere childish nonsense? That
381 Crito|       CRITO: I come to bring you a message which is sad and painful;
382 Crito|           some other disguise, and metamorphosed as the manner is of runaways;
383 Crito|            unless when you were on military service; nor did you travel
384 Crito|            you will confirm in the minds of the judges the justice
385 Crito|           you, because I wished to minimize the pain. I have always
386 Crito|         find themselves in similar misfortunes, and age does not prevent
387 Crito|       enemy. Possibly in a land of misrule like Thessaly he may be
388 Crito|   philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will
389 Crito|          sense, which he means, of moral evil; in his own words, ‘
390 Crito|      return for evil, which is the morality of the many—is that just
391 Crito|       which Plato has put into his mouth. And there would be no difficulty
392 Crito|        your father to train you in music and gymnastic?’ Right, I
393      | myself
394 Crito|         call the proceeding by any name which you like), and the
395 Crito|            first, and the unseemly narrative of his escape will be regarded
396 Crito|            CRITO: And what was the nature of the vision?~SOCRATES:
397 Crito|      always have been one of those natures who must be guided by reason,
398 Crito|        will not take care of them? Nay; but if they who call themselves
399 Crito|          have occurred through our negligence and cowardice, who might
400 Crito|           if you fly to one of the neighbouring cities, as, for example,
401 Crito|          The fact that he had been neutral in the death-struggle of
402 Crito|         world below, is one of the noblest and boldest figures of speech
403 Crito|           of talking—mere childish nonsense? That is what I want to
404 Crito|          held, by any considerable number of persons; and those who
405 Crito|     willing to give up his life in obedience to the laws of the state...~
406 Crito|          with us that he will duly obey our commands; and he neither
407 Crito|            if not persuaded, to be obeyed? And when we are punished
408 Crito|        give him the alternative of obeying or convincing us;—that is
409 Crito|           commands; and he neither obeys them nor convinces us that
410 Crito|        upon that point.’ It may be observed however that Plato never
411 Crito|            figures of speech which occur in Plato.~
412 Crito|            amusing tale. But if he offends them he will have to learn
413 Crito|     convincing us;—that is what we offer, and he does neither.~‘These
414 Crito|            is only too clear. But, oh! my beloved Socrates, let
415 Crito|       Answer, Socrates, instead of opening your eyes—you are in the
416 Crito|        meet with the usual fate of orphans, there will be small thanks
417      | over
418 Crito|       state can subsist and not be overthrown, in which the decisions
419 Crito|         which would justify him in overturning them? Was he not brought
420 Crito|           I wished to minimize the pain. I have always thought you
421 Crito|           message which is sad and painful; not, as I believe, to yourself,
422 Crito|            wise man,’ is still the paradox of Socrates in his last
423 Crito|         Socrates.~SOCRATES: Take a parallel instance:—if, acting under
424 Crito|          dream of Socrates and the parody of Homer. The personification
425 Crito|          friend and master in this particular, not to the Athenians of
426 Crito|             set off with ludicrous particulars of the manner in which you
427 Crito|            to exhibit the ideal of patient virtue which refuses to
428 Crito|            be against you, and all patriotic citizens will cast an evil
429 Crito|         these fine sentiments, and pay no respect to us the laws,
430 Crito|           to aid in our escape and paying them in money and thanks,
431 Crito|   afterwards. He may now depart in peace and innocence, a sufferer
432 Crito|       watching with amazement your peaceful slumbers; and for that reason
433 Crito|          This little dialogue is a perfect piece of dialectic, in which
434 Crito|          he might still be able to perform. ‘A rhetorician would have
435      | Perhaps
436 Crito|          ever if they allow him to perish. He should think of his
437 Crito|          world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nurture
438 Crito|           the parody of Homer. The personification of the Laws, and of their
439 Crito|      highly value your attempts to persuade me to do so, but I may not
440 Crito|         third day hence to fertile Phthia shalt thou go.’ (Homer,
441 Crito|             or of one man only—his physician or trainer, whoever he may
442 Crito|       little dialogue is a perfect piece of dialectic, in which granting
443 Crito|     circumstances in which you are placed. Tell me then, whether I
444 Crito|           to gain his consent to a plan of escape. This can be easily
445 Crito|             in acting thus you are playing into the hands of your enemies,
446 Crito|           Athens and gone where he pleased, but he has lived there
447 Crito|   acquaintance, he may go where he pleases and take his goods with
448 Crito|           not likely to conciliate popular good-will. Plato, writing
449 Crito|           of the young and foolish portion of mankind. Will you then
450 Crito|        please to consider my first position, and try how you can best
451 Crito|           no longer practicable or possible; I beseech you therefore,
452 Crito|          consider him as an enemy. Possibly in a land of misrule like
453 Crito|       Athenians of his day, but to posterity and the world at large.~
454 Crito|           at all will be no longer practicable or possible; I beseech you
455 Crito|         who devotes himself to the practice of gymnastics supposed to
456 Crito|        both which states are often praised by you for their good government,
457 Crito|            he must depart. Time is precious, and Crito has come early
458 Crito|       right. And shall that be the premiss of our argument? Or do you
459 Crito|         does.~SOCRATES: From these premisses I proceed to argue the question
460 Crito|          Cebes and many others are prepared to spend their money in
461 Crito|           afraid that Crito is but pressing upon him the opinions of
462 Crito|          professor of true virtue, pretend that you are justified in
463 Crito|           let you go then. But you pretended that you preferred death
464 Crito|          the argument has thus far prevailed, the only question which
465 Crito|      misfortunes, and age does not prevent them from repining.~SOCRATES:
466 Crito|            humming in my ears, and prevents me from hearing any other.
467 Crito|            be justified before the princes of the world below. For
468 Crito|           least, there is no human probability of this, and therefore you
469 Crito|           truant (you may call the proceeding by any name which you like),
470 Crito|       unwilling to reply.~Socrates proceeds:—Suppose the Laws of Athens
471 Crito|            had to give, we further proclaim to any Athenian by the liberty
472 Crito|          the opinions which he had professed in his life. Not ‘the world,’
473 Crito|           more becoming in one who professes to care for virtue in all
474 Crito|           in you lies? Will you, O professor of true virtue, pretend
475 Crito|            the trial he might have proposed exile as the penalty, but
476 Crito|            say the same of another proposition—that not life, but a good
477 Crito|            himself had allowed the propriety of this. And although some
478 Crito|           might disagree. Shelley (Prose Works) is of opinion that
479 Crito|           them, who will value and protect you, and no Thessalian will
480 Crito|            which was once good now proved to be talk for the sake
481 Crito|          enemies. Money is already provided by Crito as well as by Simmias
482 Crito|            obeyed? And when we are punished by her, whether with imprisonment
483 Crito|       imprisonment or stripes, the punishment is to be endured in silence;
484 Crito|       about another matter? Is the pupil who devotes himself to the
485 Crito|        Charmides, who had been his pupils, were still recent in the
486 Crito|         sum of money for this very purpose; and Cebes and many others
487 Crito|            hour, Crito? it must be quite early.~CRITO: Yes, certainly.~
488 Crito|          comely, clothed in bright raiment, who called to me and said:
489 Crito|            or retreat or leave his rank, but whether in battle or
490 Crito|         Why, Crito, when a man has reached my age he ought not to be
491 Crito|         multitude, who would be as ready to restore people to life,
492 Crito|          not for the ‘sophistical’ reasons which Plato has put into
493 Crito|       struck or reviled by him, or received some other evil at his hands?—
494      | recent
495 Crito|            to Socrates, we seem to recognize the hand of the artist.
496 Crito|           are your friends, when I reflect that the whole business
497 Crito|           reason may be which upon reflection appears to me to be the
498 Crito|            to escape, and that you refused.~SOCRATES: But why, my dear
499 Crito|        together, and do you either refute me if you can, and I will
500 Crito|           approval of the one, and regards the opinion of the many