Socrates is acting in obedience to Apollo as an investigator. Socrates is not afraid of death desertion is dishonor.
Young men have listened to Socrates, as he exposed the frauds, but Socrates is not Has been testing this revelation all his life by conversation with the conventionally Socrates is not an atheist: Apollo himself has called Socrates 'wise', and Socrates a professional teacher of the 'political arts') REFUTATION by defining the 'old charges' against him: Socrates says he is not an orator, and at the age of 70 he is too old to learn.
insinuating: the Jury must be won over from an established hostility to the Defenseīecause of Socrates' bad reputation, especially because of Aristophanes play, The Clouds. on charges of ‘corrupting the youth’ and ‘believing in gods which the State does not recognize’. The Apology of Socrates purports to be a reconstruction of the defense speeches in Socrates’ trial in 399 B.C.
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