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I was there myself, Echecrates.
Then what did he say before his death? and how did he die? I should like to hear, for nowadays none of the Phliasians go to Athens at all, and no stranger has come from there for a long time, 57b who could tell us anything definite about this matter, except that he drank poison and died, so we could learn no further details.
Echecrates.
Were you with Socrates yourself, Phaedo, on the day when he drank the poison in prison, or did you hear about it from someone else?Phaedo.
I was there myself, Echecrates.
Echecrates.
Then what did he say before his death? and how did he die? I should like to hear, for nowadays none of the Phliasians go to Athens at all, and no stranger has come from there for a long time, 57b who could tell us anything definite about this matter, except that he drank poison and died, so we could learn no further details.
Phaedo. Plato. Harold North Fowler (Translator), ed. Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb. Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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