Plato, Phaedo, ed. John Burnet, 57

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αὐτός, ὦ Φαίδων, παρεγένου Σωκράτει ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ τὸ φάρμακον ἔπιεν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ, ἢ ἄλλου του ἤκουσας;

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αὐτός, ὦ Ἐχέκρατες.

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τί οὖν δή ἐστιν ἅττα εἶπεν ὁ ἀνὴρ πρὸ τοῦ θανάτου; καὶ πῶς ἐτελεύτα; ἡδέως γὰρ ἂν ἐγὼ ἀκούσαιμι. καὶ γὰρ οὔτε τῶν πολιτῶν Φλειασίων οὐδεὶς πάνυ τι ἐπιχωριάζει τὰ νῦν Ἀθήναζε , οὔτε τις ξένος ἀφῖκται χρόνου συχνοῦ 57b ἐκεῖθεν ὅστις ἂν ἡμῖν σαφές τι ἀγγεῖλαι οἷός τ’ ἦν περὶ τούτων, πλήν γε δὴ ὅτι φάρμακον πιὼν ἀποθάνοι· τῶν δὲ ἄλλων οὐδὲν εἶχεν φράζειν.

Phaedo. Plato. ed. John Burnet. Oxford. 1905.

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Φαίδων (Greek) (Platonis Opera, Tomus I: Tetralogia I-II. Burnet, John, 1863-1928, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.)

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Phaedo Perseus (Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1. Fowler, Harold North, translator. Lamb, W.R.M, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.) — 57 focus

57a

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.

Plato Phaedo 57

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