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Rh means to set it aside: thus you will enjoy a peaceful and honorable old age, and the gods and goddesses will bless you.

Soldiers, conduct me to prison immediately. [He is carried off.

This fellow is incorrigible; but it's not my fault; I have done my duty, and have nothing to reproach myself with: he must be abandoned as a reprobate, and left to die in his sins.

[To Anitus. You should not sit here, you are priest of Ceres.

I am only here for edification.

Silence there: Socrates, you are accused of being a bad citizen, of corrupting youth, of denying a plurality of gods, of being a heretic, deist, and atheist: answer to the charge.

Judges of Athens, I exhort you all to be as good citizens as I have always myself endeavored to be: to shed your blood for your country, as I have done in many a battle: with regard to youth, guide