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501 Crito|     calamity which may ensue on my remaining here must not be allowed
502 Crito|           may be fatal to him. The remarkable sentiment that the wicked
503 Crito|            will there be no one to remind you that in your old age
504 Crito|         Laws of Athens to come and remonstrate with him: they will ask ‘
505 Crito|          ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one,
506 Crito|          one at all? (E.g. compare Rep.)~CRITO: Clearly not.~SOCRATES:
507 Crito|     lifetime, which has been often repeated in later ages. The crimes
508 Crito|        cease, my dear friend, from repeating to me that I ought to escape
509 Crito|            friend who can never be replaced, but there is another evil:
510 Crito|          overturn them?’ and if he replies, ‘they have injured him,’
511 Crito|          has befallen me, I cannot repudiate my own words: the principles
512 Crito|          considerations of loss of reputation or injury to his children
513 Crito|            behalf of the law which requires a sentence to be carried
514 Crito|        have been the most constant resident in the city, which, as you
515 Crito|        fine sentiments, and pay no respect to us the laws, of whom
516 Crito|    reverence him more than all the rest of the world: and if we
517 Crito|           who would be as ready to restore people to life, if they
518 Crito|           in the memory of the now restored democracy. The fact that
519 Crito|            whatever they do is the result of chance.~CRITO: Well,
520 Crito|             may go where he likes, retaining his property. But he who
521 Crito|     SOCRATES: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil
522 Crito|            that neither injury nor retaliation nor warding off evil by
523 Crito|     anybody else? they will justly retort upon me that I above all
524 Crito|       neither may any one yield or retreat or leave his rank, but whether
525 Crito|          men. But if you go forth, returning evil for evil, and injury
526 Crito|          he breaks agreements, and returns evil for evil, they will
527 Crito|         have hitherto honoured and revered I still honour, and unless
528 Crito|           ought we not to fear and reverence him more than all the rest
529 Crito|            soothed, and gently and reverently entreated when angry, even
530 Crito|        have any right to strike or revile or do any other evil to
531 Crito|            you have been struck or reviled by him, or received some
532 Crito|       advice; do not make yourself ridiculous by escaping out of the city.~‘
533 Crito|            this, or even a greater risk; be persuaded, then, and
534 Crito|          are unjust; and we do not rudely impose them, but give him
535 Crito|  metamorphosed as the manner is of runaways; but will there be no one
536 Crito|          miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back
537 Crito|        ashamed to violate the most sacred laws from a miserable desire
538 Crito|          who are your friends, and saddest of all to me.~SOCRATES:
539 Crito|           which is a proof of your satisfaction. Moreover, you might in
540 Crito|        demands—a little money will satisfy them. My means, which are
541 Crito|         DIALOGUE: Socrates, Crito.~SCENE: The Prison of Socrates.~
542 Crito|         service, and if you have a scruple about spending all mine,
543 Crito|            disobeying his parents; secondly, because we are the authors
544 Crito|         they will ask ‘Why does he seek to overturn them?’ and if
545      | seemed
546 Crito|         that (Phaedr.); and in the selection of Crito, the aged friend,
547 Crito|           is true, if taken in the sense, which he means, of moral
548 Crito|       fatal to him. The remarkable sentiment that the wicked can do neither
549 Crito|           things which we need not separately enumerate? In questions
550 Crito|      flatterer of all men, and the servant of all men; and doing what?—
551      | shalt
552 Crito|        will you go to them without shame, and talk to them, Socrates?
553 Crito|          and every other citizen a share in every good which we had
554 Crito|           casuists might disagree. Shelley (Prose Works) is of opinion
555 Crito|         avoid the greatest, and to show his master maintaining in
556 Crito|      citizen.’ Thus he has clearly shown that he acknowledged the
557 Crito|          for what is now happening shows that they can do the greatest
558 Crito|     punishment is to be endured in silence; and if she lead us to wounds
559 Crito|         old men find themselves in similar misfortunes, and age does
560 Crito|            the will of heaven, but simply as the good citizen, who
561 Crito|            which seems good to his single master who has understanding,
562 Crito|          Homer, Il.)~CRITO: What a singular dream, Socrates!~SOCRATES:
563 Crito|         SOCRATES: Then why did you sit and say nothing, instead
564 Crito|         opinion of the one wise or skilled man. There was a time when
565 Crito|          fortunately allowed me to sleep.~CRITO: And what was the
566 Crito|            amazement your peaceful slumbers; and for that reason I did
567 Crito|          of orphans, there will be small thanks to you. No man should
568 Crito|          understanding? also to be soothed, and gently and reverently
569 Crito|          to die,’ but not for the ‘sophistical’ reasons which Plato has
570 Crito|     murmuring in my ears, like the sound of the flute in the ears
571 Crito|      Consider, Socrates, if we are speaking truly that in your present
572 Crito|     noblest and boldest figures of speech which occur in Plato.~
573 Crito|        many others are prepared to spend their money in helping you
574 Crito|           you have a scruple about spending all mine, here are strangers
575 Crito|          the maimed, were not more stationary in her than you were. And
576 Crito|           will proceed to the next step.~CRITO: You may proceed,
577 Crito|          no laws?), that you never stirred out of her; the halt, the
578 Crito|           the informers for having stolen you away, and lose either
579 Crito|        spending all mine, here are strangers who will give you the use
580 Crito|        Would you have any right to strike or revile or do any other
581 Crito|       whether with imprisonment or stripes, the punishment is to be
582 Crito|         one, because you have been struck or reviled by him, or received
583 Crito|       Whether any one who has been subjected by the laws of his country
584 Crito|            and evil, which are the subjects of our present consultation,
585 Crito|           imagine that a state can subsist and not be overthrown, in
586 Crito|          an evil eye upon you as a subverter of the laws, and you will
587 Crito|         understanding, will he not suffer evil?~CRITO: Certainly he
588 Crito|          whatever evil we may have suffered from him. But I would have
589 Crito|           either in escaping or in suffering others to aid in our escape
590 Crito|        Theban, has brought a large sum of money for this very purpose;
591 Crito|          anything, they will—to be sure they will.~‘Listen, then,
592 Crito|        true; but still I find with surprise that the old argument is
593 Crito|      children be the gainers if he takes them into Thessaly, and
594 Crito|            be talk for the sake of talking—mere childish nonsense?
595 Crito|          will the evil be, whither tending and what affecting, in the
596 Crito|            children with hobgoblin terrors (compare Apol.). What will
597 Crito|           one of them, Simmias the Theban, has brought a large sum
598 Crito|           cities, as, for example, Thebes or Megara, both of which
599 Crito|           will give you the use of theirs; and one of them, Simmias
600 Crito|         attempting to escape, is a thesis about which casuists might
601 Crito|            and protect you, and no Thessalian will give you any trouble.
602 Crito|             He ought to do what he thinks right.~SOCRATES: But if
603 Crito|          authors of his education; thirdly, because he has made an
604 Crito|         wounds or death in battle, thither we follow as is right; neither
605      | thou
606 Crito|    disobeys us is, as we maintain, thrice wrong: first, because in
607      | through
608 Crito|            within a few days to be thrown away? And have we, at our
609 Crito|          she will probably be here to-day, as persons who have come
610 Crito|          is true. But you have not told me why you come at this
611 Crito|            lose their property, is tolerably certain; and you yourself,
612      | too
613 Crito|             in which you also were trained? Were not the laws, which
614 Crito|          man only—his physician or trainer, whoever he may be?~CRITO:
615 Crito|       power, but are set aside and trampled upon by individuals?’ What
616 Crito|            anything like the easy, tranquil manner in which you bear
617 Crito|          For just consider, if you transgress and err in this sort of
618 Crito|      military service; nor did you travel as other men do. Nor had
619 Crito|            that I am about to play truant (you may call the proceeding
620 Crito|    fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will of heaven, but
621 Crito|         would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts
622 Crito|          of them? To this Crito is unable or unwilling to reply.~Socrates
623 Crito|          the proposal of escape is uncertain: Plato could easily have
624 Crito|            in the next generation, undertakes the defence of his friend
625 Crito|    covenants appeared to you to be unfair. You had your choice, and
626 Crito|          in such great trouble and unrest as you are—indeed I should
627 Crito|         welcomed at first, and the unseemly narrative of his escape
628      | until
629 Crito|            and the opinions of the unwise are evil?~CRITO: Certainly.~
630 Crito|          you have any objection to urge against those of us who
631 Crito|    strangers who will give you the use of theirs; and one of them,
632 Crito|          they do not meet with the usual fate of orphans, there will
633 Crito|          which you may say will be vain. Yet speak, if you have
634 Crito|          and not a doer of evil; a victim, not of the laws, but of
635 Crito|            or he must change their view of what is just: and if
636 Crito|            you were not ashamed to violate the most sacred laws from
637 Crito|            well-ordered cities and virtuous men? and is existence worth
638 Crito|        ever really occurred as the visit of Crito and the proposal
639 Crito|            contemporary Crito, who visits him before the dawn has
640 Crito|            not be persuaded that I wanted you to escape, and that
641 Crito|           us and the city, and who wants to emigrate to a colony
642 Crito|         injury nor retaliation nor warding off evil by evil is ever
643 Crito|        broken; he himself has been warned in a dream that on the third
644 Crito|            should not: I have been watching with amazement your peaceful
645 Crito|            of age and has seen the ways of the city, and made our
646 Crito|            to fear the censure and welcome the praise of that one only,
647 Crito|            like Thessaly he may be welcomed at first, and the unseemly
648 Crito|            But if you go away from well-governed states to Crito’s friends
649      | whoever
650 Crito|      remarkable sentiment that the wicked can do neither good nor
651 Crito|          another when they see how widely they differ. Tell me, then,
652 Crito|           not awake you, because I wished to minimize the pain. I
653 Crito|        ought to escape against the wishes of the Athenians: for I
654      | within
655 Crito|            to me the likeness of a woman, fair and comely, clothed
656 Crito|           is breaking.~SOCRATES: I wonder that the keeper of the prison
657 Crito|          to us in deed, and not in word only? Is that true or not?’
658 Crito|           disagree. Shelley (Prose Works) is of opinion that Socrates ‘
659 Crito|     silence; and if she lead us to wounds or death in battle, thither
660 Crito|           manner in which you were wrapped in a goatskin or some other
661 Crito|          popular good-will. Plato, writing probably in the next generation,
662 Crito|         you have made with us, and wronging those whom you ought least
663 Crito|         right; neither may any one yield or retreat or leave his
664 Crito|           to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.
665      | yours