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Plato, Apology Of Socrates, 29d

ἁλῷς ἔτι τοῦτο πράττων, ἀποθανῇ —εἰ οὖν με, ὅπερ εἶπον, ἐπὶ τούτοις ἀφίοιτε, εἴποιμʼ ἂν ὑμῖν ὅτι ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀσπάζομαι μὲν καὶ φιλῶ, πείσομαι δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ θεῷ ἢ ὑμῖν, καὶ ἕωσπερ ἂν ἐμπνέω καὶ οἷός τε ὦ, οὐ μὴ παύσωμαι φιλοσοφῶν καὶ ὑμῖν παρακελευόμενός τε καὶ ἐνδεικνύμενος ὅτῳ ἂν ἀεὶ ἐντυγχάνω ὑμῶν, λέγων οἷάπερ εἴωθα, ὅτι ὦ ἄριστε ἀνδρῶν, Ἀθηναῖος ὤν, πόλεως τῆς μεγίστης καὶ εὐδοκιμωτάτης εἰς σοφίαν καὶ ἰσχύν, χρημάτων μὲν οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ ἐπιμελούμενος ὅπως σοι ἔσται ὡς πλεῖστα if you should let me go on this condition which I have mentioned, I should say to you, Men of Athens, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you, and while I live and am able to continue, I shall never give up philosophy or stop exhorting you and pointing out the truth to any one of you whom I may meet, saying in my accustomed way: Most excellent man, are you who are a citizen of Athens, the greatest of cities and the most famous for wisdom and power, not ashamed to care for the acquisition of wealth

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1. Homer, Iliad, 9.363 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 9.363. /my ships at early dawn sailing over the teeming Hellespont, and on board men right eager to ply the oar; and if so be the great Shaker of the Earth grants me fair voyaging, on the third day shall I reach deep-soiled Phthia. Possessions full many have I that I left on my ill-starred way hither
2. Herodotus, Histories, 2.81 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 2.81. They wear linen tunics with fringes hanging about the legs, called “calasiris,” and loose white woolen mantles over these. But nothing woolen is brought into temples, or buried with them: that is impious. ,They agree in this with practices called Orphic and Bacchic, but in fact Egyptian and Pythagorean: for it is impious, too, for one partaking of these rites to be buried in woolen wrappings. There is a sacred legend about this.
3. Plato, Apology of Socrates, 21a, 21b, 21d, 21e, 23a, 23b, 23c, 28b, 28c, 28d, 28d10-29a1, 28e, 29a, 29b, 29c, 29d-30b, 29e, 30a, 30b, 30c, 30e, 30e-31b, 31b, 31c, 37a, 37b, 37e, 38a, 40a, 40b, 40c, 41d, 20e (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 20e. of whom I was just speaking, might be wise in some wisdom greater than human, or I don’t know what to say; for I do not understand it, and whoever says I do, is lying and speaking to arouse prejudice against me. And, men of Athens, do not interrupt me with noise, even if I seem to you to be boasting; for the word which I speak is not mine, but the speaker to whom I shall refer it is a person of weight. For of my wisdom—if it is wisdom at all—and of its nature, I will offer you the god of Delphi as a witness. You know Chaerephon, I fancy.
4. Plato, Charmides, 174d (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
5. Plato, Crito, 44b, 46d, 54e, 44a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 44a. Crito. What is your reason for not thinking so? Socrates. I will tell you. I must die on the day after the ship comes in, must I not? Crito. So those say who have charge of these matters. Socrates. Well, I think it will not come in today, but tomorrow. And my reason for this is a dream which I had a little while ago in the course of this night. And perhaps you let me sleep just at the right time. Crito. What was the dream? Socrates. I dreamed that a beautiful, fair woman, clothed in white raiment, came to me and called me
6. Plato, Gorgias, 521d, 467e-468b (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
7. Plato, Laches, 194e, 199d, 199e, 194d (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 194d. Nic. I have often heard you say that every man is good in that wherein he is wise, and bad in that wherein he is unlearned. Soc. Well, that is true, Nicias, I must say. Nic. And hence, if the brave man is good, clearly he must be wise. Soc. Do you hear him, Laches? Lach. I do, without understanding very well what he says. Soc. But I think I understand it: our friend appears to me to mean that courage is a kind of wisdom. Lach. What kind of wisdom, Socrates?
8. Plato, Phaedo, 61c, 98e, 60e (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 60e. for I knew that would not be easy, but because I wished to test the meaning of certain dreams, and to make sure that I was neglecting no duty in case their repeated commands meant that I must cultivate the Muses in this way. They were something like this. The same dream came to me often in my past life, sometimes in one form and sometimes in another, but always saying the same thing: Socrates, it said, make music and work at it. Phaedo. And I formerly thought it was urging and encouraging me
9. Plato, Theaetetus, 149c, 150c, 150d, 210c, 210d, 148e (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 148e. THEAET. But I assure you, Socrates, I have often tried to work that out, when I heard reports of the questions that you asked, but I can neither persuade myself that I have any satisfactory answer, nor can I find anyone else who gives the kind of answer you insist upon; and yet, on the other hand, I cannot get rid of a feeling of concern about the matter. SOC. Yes, you are suffering the pangs of labor, Theaetetus, because you are not empty, but pregt. THEAET. I do not know, Socrates; I merely tell you what I feel.
10. Plato, Timaeus, 71e, 71d (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 71d. rectifies all its parts so as to make them straight and smooth and free, it causes the part of the soul planted round the liver to be cheerful and serene, so that in the night it passes its time sensibly, being occupied in its slumbers with divination, seeing that in reason and intelligence it has no share.
11. Xenophon, Apology, 14, 13 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
12. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.1.5, 1.1.9, 1.4.14-1.4.15, 1.4.18, 4.3.12 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1.1.5. And yet who would not admit that he wished to appear neither a knave nor a fool to his companions? but he would have been thought both, had he proved to be mistaken when he alleged that his counsel was in accordance with divine revelation. Obviously, then, he would not have given the counsel if he had not been confident that what he said would come true. And who could have inspired him with that confidence but a god? And since he had confidence in the gods, how can he have disbelieved in the existence of the gods? 1.1.9. If any man thinks that these matters are wholly within the grasp of the human mind and nothing in them is beyond our reason, that man, he said, is irrational. But it is no less irrational to seek the guidance of heaven in matters which men are permitted by the gods to decide for themselves by study: to ask, for instance, Is it better to get an experienced coachman to drive my carriage or a man without experience? Cyropaedia I. vi. 6. Is it better to get an experienced seaman to steer my ship or a man without experience? So too with what we may know by reckoning, measurement or weighing. To put such questions to the gods seemed to his mind profane. In short, what the gods have granted us to do by help of learning, we must learn; what is hidden from mortals we should try to find out from the gods by divination: for to him that is in their grace the gods grant a sign. 1.4.14. For is it not obvious to you that, in comparison with the other animals, men live like gods, by nature peerless both in body and in soul? For with a man’s reason and the body of an ox we could not carry out our wishes, and the possession of hands without reason is of little worth. Do you, then, having received the two most precious gifts, yet think that the gods take no care of you? What are they to do, to make you believe that they are heedful of you? 1.4.15. I will believe when they send counsellors, as you declare they do, saying, Do this, avoid that. But when the Athenians inquire of them by divination and they reply, do you not suppose that to you, too, the answer is given? Or when they send portents for warning to the Greeks, or to all the world? Are you their one exception, the only one consigned to neglect? 1.4.18. Nay, but just as by serving men you find out who is willing to serve you in return, by being kind who will be kind to you in return, and by taking counsel, discover the masters of thought, so try the gods by serving them, and see whether they will vouchsafe to counsel you in matters hidden from man. Then you will know that such is the greatness and such the nature of the deity that he sees all things Cyropaedia VIII. vii. 22. and hears all things alike, and is present in all places and heedful of all things. 4.3.12. and think of the power of expression, which enables us to impart to one another all good things by teaching and to take our share of them, to enact laws and to administer states. Truly, Socrates, it does appear that the gods devote much care to man. Yet again, in so far as we are powerless of ourselves to foresee what is expedient for the future, Cyropaedia I. vi. 46. the gods lend us their aid, revealing the issues by divination to inquirers, and teaching them how to obtain the best results. With you, Socrates, they seem to deal even more friendly than with other men, if it is true that, even unasked, they warn you by signs what to do and what not to do.
13. Xenophon, Symposium, 4.47-4.49 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 4.47. Very well; in the first place, it is clear as day that both Greeks and barbarians believe that the gods know everything both present and to come; at any rate, all cities and all races ask the gods, by the diviner’s art, for advice as to what to do and what to avoid. Second, it is likewise manifest that we consider them able to work us good or ill; at all events, every one prays the gods to avert evil and grant blessings. 4.48. Well, these gods, omniscient and omnipotent, feel so friendly toward me that their watchfulness over me never lets me out of their ken night or day, no matter where I am going or what business I have in view. They know the results also that will follow any act; and so they send me as messengers omens of sounds, dreams, and birds, and thus indicate what I ought to do and what I ought not to do. And when I do their bidding, I never regret it; on the other hand, I have before now disregarded them and have been punished for it. 4.49. None of these statements, said Socrates , is incredible. But what I should like very much to know is how you serve them to keep them so friendly. A very economical service it is, I declare! responded Hermogenes. I sound their praises,—which costs nothing; I always restore them part of what they give me; I avoid profanity of speech as far as I can; and I never wittingly lie in matters wherein I have invoked them to be my witnesses. Truly, said Socrates , if it is conduct like this that gives you their friendship, then the gods also, it would seem, take delight in nobility of soul! Such was the serious turn given to the discussion of this topic.
14. New Testament, Acts, 5.29, 11.25, 18.17, 20.35 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 5.29. But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. 11.25. Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul. 18.17. Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things. 20.35. In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
15. New Testament, Luke, 2.43-2.47, 4.32-4.35 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.43. and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn't know it 2.44. but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances. 2.45. When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him. 2.46. It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. 2.47. All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 4.32. and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. 4.33. In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice 4.34. saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God! 4.35. Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
account	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 134
acts	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47
acusmata	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
annas, j.	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
apollo	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 129
apollo of delphi on, and socrates	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
apology	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12, 129, 131, 134
areopagus	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47
aristotle	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47
artemis	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
athens	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 131; Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47; Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
beauty	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
biography, of socrates	Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 59
body	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
charmides (dialogue character)	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12
cleanthes, zeno as follower of	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 145
customs	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
daimones, daimonion of socrates	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
dearness to god, and socrates	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
definition	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12
demiurge	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
democritus	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
desire, satisfaction of	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
dialectic	Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 59
divination, and dearness to gods	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
divination, and divine benevolence	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
divination, and socrates	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
divination	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
elenchus	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
envy (phthonos)	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 134
ergon	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
eudaimonia/-ē	Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 434
eudaimonism, socratic	Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 434
extravagance	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
fine, the	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
god, gods, and suicide	Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
godlikeness, platonic	Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
gorgias (plato)	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
happiness, vs. goodness	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
hedonism	Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 434
hellenism	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47
honor	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 131
jesus	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47
knowledge, of what is	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 129
knowledge	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12, 129
laches (dialogue character)	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12
luke	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47
materialistic values	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
mcpherran, mark	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
nature	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
paul the apostle	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47
phaedo	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12
philosophy, in plato	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
piety, in socrates	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
plato, socrates ethics in	Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 434
plato, socratic author	Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 59
plato	Fialová Hoblík and Kitzler, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity: Transmission and Transformation of Ideas (2022) 47; Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
pleasure	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 134
politics, political and social obligations	Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
prayers, and dearness to gods	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
propitiousness of gods, and divination	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
reason, and socrates	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
searching for wisdom, stoics as followers of'	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 145
searching for wisdom	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 145
service to gods', and apollo of delphi"	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 118
shame (aidôs)	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 134
slavery	Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
socrates, biography	Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 59
socrates, distinction between body and soul	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
socrates, examining	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 145
socrates, obeying the god	Brouwer, The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates (2013) 145
socrates, on suicide in platos phaedo	Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
socrates	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
socratic dialogue	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12
socratics	Wardy and Warren, Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (2018) 59
sophists	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138
suicide, in plato	Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
suicide, in stoicism	Long, Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019) 183
symposium (plato)	Harte, Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) 65
true beliefs	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 129
unexamined life (apology)	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12
virtue	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12, 129, 131, 134
vlastos, gregory	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
wisdom, divine	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
wisdom, in socrates	Legaspi, Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition (2018) 141
wisdom	Ebrey and Kraut, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, 2nd ed (2022) 12, 129, 131, 134
xenophanes	Huffman, A History of Pythagoreanism (2019) 138