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attached to ,anitus ,,judges ,,disciples ,,of ,,socrates ,,nonoti1 a pedant protected by ,anitus ,,bertios1 another ,,chomos1 another ,,act ,i ,,anitus3 ,my dear confidants1 my dear agents1 you know how much money ,i made you during the last festival of ,ceres4 ,i'm getting married and ,i hope you will do your duty on this grand occasion4 ,,drixa3 ,yes1 without doubt1 ,milord1 since you are going to make us earn yet more4 ,,anitus3 ,madame ,drixa1 ,i must have two beautiful ,persian rugs4 ,you1 ,terpandre1 of you ,i only ask two large silver candelabra4 ,and of you1 ,acros1 a half dozen dresses of silk embroidered with gold4 ,,terpandre3 ,that's a bit much2 but ,milord there's nothing ,i won't do to deserve your holy protection4 ,,anitus3 ,you will regain all that a hundred fold4 ,it's the best way to deserve the favors of the gods and goddesses4 ,give much and you will receive much2 and especially don't fail to arouse the people against all the people of quality who do not vow enough1 and who do not present offerings4 ,,acros3 ,we will never fail in that2 it's too sacred a duty not to be faithful to it4 ,,anitus3 ,go1 my dear friends4 ,may the gods keep you in these sentiments1 so pious and just6 ,and count on prospering1 yourselves1 your children and your grandchildren4 ,,terpandre3 ,we are sure of that because you said it4 7,exit ,terpandre and ,acros7 ,,anitus3 ,well1 my dear ,madame ,drixa1 ,i think you don't find it ill that ,i am espousing ,aglaea2 but ,i don't love you any less4 ,we will live together as usual4 ,,drixa3 ,oh6 ,milord1 ,i am not jealous2 and since business is going so well ,i am very satisfied4 ,since ,i have the honor of being one of your mistresses1 ,i have enjoyed great consideration in ,athens4 ,if you love ,aglaea1 ,i love the young ,sophronine4 ,and ,xantippe1 the wife of ,socrates has promised to give him to me in marriage4 ,you will still have the same rights over me4 ,i am only annoyed that this young man may be raised by that villainous ,socrates1 and that ,aglaea may yet be in his clutches4 ,they must be gotten out of them as quickly as possible4 ,xantippe will be enchanted to be rid of them4 ,the handsome ,sophronine and the beautiful ,aglaea are very ill in ,socrates hands4 ,,anitus3 ,i really flatter myself1 my dear ,madame ,drixa1 that ,melitus and ,i will ruin that dangerous man1 who preaches nothing but virtue and divinity and who has dared to mock certain intrigues that happened at the ,mysteries of ,ceres4 ,but ,socrates is the tutor of ,aglaea4 ,agathon1 ,aglaea's father1 they say has left her great wealth4 ,aglaea is adorable4 ,i idolize ,aglaea4 ,i must marry ,aglaea and ,i must deal tactfully with ,socrates while waiting to hang him4 ,,drixa3 ,deal tactfully with ,socrates in order that ,i may have my young man4 ,but why did ,agathon allow his daughter into the clutches of that old1 flat nosed ,socrates1 that insufferable fault-finder who corrupts the young and prevents them from frequenting courtesans and the holy mysteries8 ,,anitus3 ,agathon was infatuated with the same principles4 ,he was one of those sober and serious types who have different morals from ours2 who are from another country1 and who are our sworn enemies1 who think they've fulfilled all their duties when they've adored divinity1 helped humanity1 cultivated friendship and studied philosophy2 one of those folks who insolently pretend that the gods have not inscribed the future in the liver of an ox2 one of those pitiless dialecticians who find fault with priests for sacrificing their daughters or spending the night with them1 as needs be4 ,you feel they are monsters fit only to be choked4 ,if there were only five or six sages in ,athens who had as much credit as he1 that would be enough to deprive me of most of my income and honors4 ,,drixa3 ,the ,devil6 ,now that's really serious4 ,,anitus3 ,while waiting to strangle him1 ,i am going to speak with him under the porticoes and conclude this business with him about my marriage4 ,,drixa3 ,here he is3 you do him too much honor4 ,i am going to leave you and ,i am going to speak about my young man to ,xantippe4 ,,anitus3 ,the gods accompany you1 my darling ,drixa4 ,serve them always and beware of believing in only one ,god1 and don't forget my two beautiful ,persian rugs4 7,enter ,socrates7 ,eh6 ,hello1 my dear ,socrates1 the favorite of the gods and the wisest of mortals4 ,i feel ,i am raised above myself every time ,i see you and in you1 ,i respect ,human ,nature4 ,,socrates3 ,i am a simple man destitute of sciences and full of weakness like the rest4 ,it's much if you support me4 ,,anitus3 ,support you6 ,i admire you2 ,i would like to resemble you if it were possible4 ,and it is in order to be a more frequent witness to your virtues1 to hear your lessons more often1 that ,i wish to marry your beautiful pupil ,aglaea whose destiny depends on you4 ,,socrates3 ,it's true that her father1 ,agathon1 who was my friend1 that is to say much more than just a relative1 confided to me by his will this amiable and virtuous orphan4 ,,anitus3 ,with considerable riches8 ,for they say it's the best part of ,athens4 ,,socrates3 ,on that subject1 ,i can give you no enlightenment2 her father1 that kind friend whose wishes are sacred to me1 forbade me by that same will1 to divulge the condition of his daughter's fortune4 ,,anitus3 ,that respect for the last wishes of a friend1 and that discretion are worthy of your beautiful soul4 ,but people know well enough that ,agathon was a rich man4 ,,socrates3 ,he deserved to be1 if riches are a favor of the ,supreme ,being4 ,,anitus3 ,they say that a little hare-brain named ,sophronine1 is paying court to her on account of her fortune4 ,but ,i am persuaded that you will show the door to such a character1 and that a man like me won't have a rival4 ,,socrates3 ,i know what ,i must think of a man like you3 but it's not for me to obstruct ,aglaea's feelings4 ,i serve her as her father2 ,i am not her master4 ,she must dispose of her heart4 ,i regard constraint as a crime4 ,speak to her3 ,if she listens to your propositions1 ,i will consent to her will4 ,,anitus3 ,i've already got the consent of ,xantippe1 your wife2 without doubt she is informed of ,aglaea's feelings2 so ,i regard the thing as done4 ,,socrates3 ,i cannot regard things as done until they are4 7,aglaea enters7 ,come beautiful ,aglaea1 come decide your fate4 ,here's a gentleman1 priest of high rank1 the leading priest in ,athens1 who offers himself to be your spouse4 ,i leave you complete liberty to explain things with him4 ,that liberty will not be constrained by my presence4 ,whatever choice you make ,i will approve4 ,xantippe will prepare everything for your wedding4 7,socrates leaves7 ,,aglaea3 ,ah1 generous ,socrates it's with great regret ,i see you leave4 ,,anitus3 ,it seems1 amiable ,aglaea1 that you have great confidence in the good ,socrates4 ,,aglaea3 ,i owe it to him2 he's serving as my father and he forms my soul4 ,,anitus3 ,well6 ,if he directs your feelings1 could you tell me what you think of ,ceres1 of ,cybele1 of ,venus8 ,,aglaea3 ,alas6 ,i will2 whatever you wish4 ,,anitus3 ,that's well said3 you will also do what ,i wish4 ,,aglaea3 ,no4 ,that's much different from the other4 ,,anitus3 ,you see that the wise ,socrates consents to our union4 ,xantippe1 his wife1 presses for this marriage4 ,you know what feelings you have inspired in me4 ,you know my rank and my reputation4 ,you see that my happiness and perhaps yours depends on a word from your mouth4 ,,aglaea3 ,i am going to respond to you with the truth which that great man who just left here instructed me never to dissemble1 and with the liberty that he left me4 ,i respect your dignity2 ,i know little of your person and ,i cannot give myself to you4 ,,anitus3 ,you cannot6 ,you who are free6 ,ah1 ,aglaea1 you don't wish it then8 ,,aglaea3 ,it's true that ,i don't wish it4 ,,anitus3 ,are you really aware of the affront you are giving me8 ,i see very clearly that ,socrates has betrayed me4 ,it's he who is dictating your response4 ,it's he who is giving preference to this young ,sophronine1 to my unworthy rival1 to that impious-- ,,aglaea3 ,sophronine is not impious2 he's been attached to him since childhood4 ,socrates serves as a father to him as to me4 ,sophronine is full of grace and virtue4 ,i love him and ,i am loved by him4 ,he clings only to me to be his wife4 ,but ,i will no more have him than you4 ,,anitus3 ,all that you tell me astonishes me4 ,what6 ,you dare to admit to me that you love ,sophronine8 ,,aglaea3 ,yes1 ,i dare confess to you because nothing is more true4 ,,anitus3 ,and when he demands that you be happy with him1 you refuse his hand8 ,,aglaea3 ,again1 nothing is more true4 ,,anitus3 ,doubtless it's fear of displeasing me that delays your engagement to him8 ,,aglaea3 ,assuredly no4 ,never having sought to please you1 ,i do not at all fear displeasing you4 ,,anitus3 ,then you fear to offend the gods by preferring a profane man like this ,sophronine to a minister of the altars8 ,,aglaea3 ,not at all2 ,i am persuaded that the ,supreme ,being cares very little whether ,i marry you or not4 ,,anitus3 ,the ,supreme ,being6 ,my dear girl1 that's not the way you must speak4 ,you must speak of gods and goddesses4 ,take care3 ,i perceive in you dangerous sentiments and ,i know very well who inspired them4 ,know that ,ceres1 whose high priest ,i am1 can punish you for having scorned her cult and her minister4 ,,aglaea3 ,i scorn neither the one nor the other4 ,they tell me that ,ceres presides over wheat3 ,i intend to believe it4 ,but she doesn't meddle with my marriage4 ,,anitus3 ,she meddles with everything4 ,you know that very well2 but still ,i hope to convert you4 ,are you really determined not to marry ,sophronine8 ,,aglaea3 ,yes1 ,i am very determined1 and ,i'm very annoyed about it4 ,,anitus3 ,i don't understand these contradictions at all4 ,listen3 ,i love you4 ,i wanted to make you happy and place you in a high rank4 ,believe me1 don't offend me4 ,don't reject your fortune4 ,think that it is necessary to sacrifice everything to an advantageous establishment2 that youth passes and that fortune remains4 ,that riches and honors must be your only goal and that ,i speak to you on behalf of the ,gods and ,goddesses4 ,i beg you to reflect on it4 ,goodbye1 my dear girl4 ,i am going to pray to ,ceres that she may inspire you4 ,and ,i hope that she will touch your heart4 ,goodbye1 one more time4 ,remember you promised me not to marry ,sophronine4 ,,aglaea3 ,i promised that to myself not to you4 7,anitus leaves7 ,how that man increases my chagrin4 ,i don't know why ,i never see that priest without trembling4 ,but here's ,sophronine4 ,alas1 while his rival fills me with terror1 this one increases my sorrows and my tenderness4 ,,sophronine3 7entering7 ,darling ,aglaea1 ,i see ,anitus1 that priest of ,ceres1 that evil man1 that sworn enemy of ,socrates1 is leaving you1 and your eyes seem damp with tears4 ,,aglaea3 ,him6 ,he's the enemy of our benefactor1 ,socrates8 ,i am no longer astonished by the aversion that he inspired me with even before he spoke to me4 ,,sophronine3 ,alas1 is it to him that ,i must impute the tears that darken your eyes8 ,,aglaea3 ,he can only inspire me with disgust4 ,no1 ,sophronine1 only you can make my tears flow4 ,,sophronine3 ,me1 great gods6 ,i who would pay for them with my blood6 ,i1 who adore you1 who flatter myself to be loved by you6 ,i1 who must reproach myself for having cast a moment of bitterness into your life8 ,you are weeping and ,i am the cause of it8 ,then what have ,i done8 ,what crime have ,i committed8 ,,aglaea3 ,you didn't commit any4 ,i am crying because you deserve all my tenderness2 because you have it2 and because ,i must renounce you4 ,,sophronine3 ,what funereal words have you uttered8 ,no1 ,i cannot believe it2 you love me1 you cannot change4 ,you promised me to be mine2 you don't wish my death4 ,,aglaea3 ,i want you to live happy1 ,sophronine1 and ,i cannot make you happy4 ,i hoped1 but my fate misled me4 ,i swear that1 not being able to be yours1 ,i will belong to no one4 ,i declared it to that ,anitus who is pursuing me1 and whom ,i scorn4 ,i declare to you my heart is full of the most acute sorrow and the most tender love4 ,,sophronine3 ,since you love me1 ,i ought to live2 but if you refuse me your hand1 ,i must die4 ,dearest ,aglaea1 in the name of so much love1 in the name of your charms and your virtues1 explain this funereal mystery to me4 7,socrates enters7 ,o ,socrates6 my master6 my father6 ,i see myself here the most unlucky of men3 between two beings through whom ,i breathe2 it's you who taught me wisdom2 it's ,aglaea who taught me how to feel love4 ,you've given your consent to our marriage2 the beautiful ,aglaea who seems to desire it refuses me and1 as she tells me she loves me1 plunges the dagger in my heart4 ,she breaks off our marriage without explaining to me the reason for such a cruel caprice4 ,either prevent my pain1 or teach me1 if it is possible1 to bear it4 ,,socrates3 ,aglaea is the mistress of her will2 her father made me her tutor and not her tyrant4 ,i based my happiness on seeing you united together2 if she has changed her mind1 ,i am surprised by it1 but we must hear her reasons4 ,if they are just1 we must submit to them4 ,,sophronine3 ,they cannot be just4 ,,aglaea3 ,they are1 at least in my eyes4 ,condescend to listen to me1 person to person4 ,when you had accepted the secret testament of my father1 wise and generous ,socrates1 you told me that it would leave me an honest fortune with which ,i could establish myself4 ,from that time1 ,i formed the plan of giving this fortune to your dear disciple1 ,sophronine1 who has only your support and for his entire wealth possessed only his virtue4 ,you entirely approved my resolution4 ,you conceived that it was my good fortune to make the fortune of an ,athenian that ,i regard as your son4 ,full of my happiness1 carried away by a sweet joy1 that my heart could not contain1 ,i confided this delirious state my soul was in to your wife1 ,xantippe1 and just as soon that condition disappeared4 ,she treated me as a dreamer4 ,she showed me the will of my father who died in poverty1 who left me nothing1 and who confided me to the friendship which united you4 ,at that moment1 awakened from my dream1 ,i felt only sadness at being unable to make the fortune of ,sophronine2 ,i don't wish to overwhelm him with the weight of my misery4 ,,sophronine3 ,indeed1 ,i told you ,socrates that her reasons were valueless2 if she loves me am ,i not rich enough8 ,i've subsisted1 it's true through your charity1 but it's not a guilty employment that ,i embrace only to support my dear ,aglaea4 ,i must1 it's true1 make her the sacrifice of my love1 to find for her1 an advantageous role for myself4 ,but ,i confess1 ,i don't have the strength1 and in that respect ,i am unworthy of her4 ,but if she could be content with my conditions1 if she could lower herself to me6 ,no1 ,i don't dare ask it2 ,i don't dare wish it and ,i won't succumb to a misfortune that she suffers4 ,,socrates3 ,my children1 ,xantippe was really indiscreet to have shown you that will4 ,but believe me1 beautiful ,aglaea1 that she deceived you4 ,,aglaea3 ,she didn't deceive me4 ,i saw my misery with my own eyes4 ,my father's handwriting is well known to me4 ,be sure1 ,socrates1 that ,i know how to bear poverty2 ,i know how to work with my hands4 ,it's enough to live4 ,that's all ,i need4 ,but it's not enough for ,sophronine4 ,,sophronine3 ,it's a thousand times too much for me1 tender1 sublime soul1 worthy of having been raised by ,socrates4 ,a noble and laborious poverty is the natural state of man4 ,i would have wanted to offer you a throne4 ,but if you deign to live with me1 our respectable poverty is higher than the throne of ,croesus1 ,,socrates3 ,your feelings please me more than they soften me4 ,with ecstacy1 ,i see blooming in your hearts the virtue that ,i sowed there4 ,never have my cares been better rewarded2 never have my hopes been better fulfilled4 ,but1 yet once more1 ,aglaea1 believe me1 my wife has ill informed you4 ,you are richer than you can imagine4 ,it was not in her but in me that your father confided4 ,can you not have wealth that ,xantippe is ignorant of8 ,,aglaea3 ,no1 ,socrates4 ,it says exactly in his will that he is leaving me poor4 ,,socrates3 ,and as for me1 ,i tell you that you are mistaken2 that he left you wherewithal to live happily with the virtuous ,sophronine1 and that it is necessary that you both come to sign the contract now4 ,,xantippe 7entering7 ,come on1 come on1 my daughter4 ,don't amuse yourself with the dreams of my husband4 ,philosophy is all very fine when one is in easy circumstances1 but you have nothing4 ,one has to live4 ,you will philosophize later4 ,i have concluded your marriage with ,anitus1 a worthy priest1 a man of credit1 a powerful man4 ,come follow me4 ,there must be neither delay nor contradiction2 ,i like to be obeyed4 ,and quickly1 it's for your good4 ,don't argue and follow me4 ,,sophronine3 ,ah1 heaven1 ha6 dearest ,aglaea6 ,,socrates3 ,let her talk and trust in me for your happiness4 ,,xantippe3 ,what do you mean1 let me talk8 ,really1 ,i mean to do so1 and they'd better let me do it4 ,it's really for you1 with your wisdom1 and your familiar demon1 and your irony1 and all your nonsense which is good for nothing1 for you to meddle in the marriage of young girls6 ,you are a good sort1 but you don't understand anything about worldly affairs4 ,and you are very lucky that ,i govern you4 ,come on1 ,aglaea1 come so ,i can establish you4 ,and you1 who remain bewildered1 ,i've got just the thing for you1 too4 ,drixa is your thing4 ,you will thank me1 both of you4 ,everything will be concluded in no time2 ,i am expeditious4 ,let's not waste time4 ,all this should have been concluded already4 ,,socrates3 ,don't offend her1 my children4 ,show her all sorts of deference4 ,it's necessary to humor her since one cannot correct her1 ,it's the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any4 ,,curtain ,,act ,,ii ,,sophronine3 ,divine ,socrates1 ,i cannot believe my luck3 how can it be that ,aglaea whose father died in extreme poverty has such a considerable dowry8 ,,socrates3 ,i already told you2 she had more than she knew4 ,i knew her father's resources better than she4 ,may it suffice you both to enjoy a fortune you deserve2 as for myself1 ,i owe the dead a secret as well as the living4 ,,sophronine3 ,i have only one fear2 it's that that priest of ,ceres1 over whom you've preferred me will avenge ,aglaea's refusals on you4 ,he's a man really to be feared4 ,,socrates3 ,eh6 ,what can be feared when one is doing one's duty8 ,i know the rage of my enemies4 ,i know all their slanders2 but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven1 one can fear nothing1 neither during life1 nor after death4 ,,sophronine3 ,nothing is more true2 but ,i would die of sorrow if the happiness ,i owe you allowed your enemies to force you to put your heroic constancy to use4 ,,aglaea3 7entering7 ,my benefactor1 my father1 man above all men1 ,i embrace your knees4 ,second me1 ,sophronine1 it's he1 it's ,socrates who is marrying us at the expense of his fortune1 who is paying my dowry1 who is depriving himself of the greatest share of his wealth for us4 ,no4 ,we won't suffer it2 we won't be rich at this price4 ,the more grateful our heart1 the more we must imitate the nobility of his4 ,,sophronine3 ,like ,aglaea1 ,i am throwing myself at your feet4 ,i am seized as she is4 ,we feel your benefactions equally4 ,we love you too much1 ,socrates1 to abuse it4 ,look at us as your children4 ,but don't let your children be an expense to such a degree4 ,your friendship is the greatest of treasures2 it's the only one that we want4 ,what6 ,you are not rich and you are doing what the powerful on earth don't do6 ,if we were to accept your benefits we would be unworthy of them4 ,,socrates3 ,rise1 children4 ,you are making me too weak4 ,listen1 mustn't we respect the will of the dead8 ,aglaea1 your father whom ,i regarded as the better part of myself1 didn't he order me to treat you as my own daughter8 ,i am obeying him4 ,i would be betraying his friendship and confidence if ,i did less4 ,i accepted his testament1 and ,i will execute it4 ,the little that ,i am giving you is useless to my old age which is without needs4 ,finally1 as ,i have a duty to obey my friend1 you must obey your father4 ,it is ,i who in his sacred name order you not to overwhelm me with sorrow by refusing me4 ,but retire2 ,i observe ,xantippe4 ,i have my reasons for begging you to avoid her at this time4 ,,aglaea3 ,ah4 ,what cruel orders you give us4 7,aglaea and ,sophronine exit7 ,,xantippe 7entering7 ,truly1 you've just made a fine masterpiece6 ,my word1 my dear husband1 it's necessary to prevent you4 ,see1 if you please1 these stupidities4 ,i promised ,aglaea to the priest ,anitus who has much credit among the great4 ,i promised ,sophronine to that big business woman1 ,drixa who has great credit among the people1 and you marry the two dummies to each other to make me break my word4 ,it's not enough you are endowering them with the greatest share of your wealth4 ,twenty thousand drachmas1 just gods6 ,twenty thousand drachmas6 ,aren't you ashamed8 ,with what will you live at the age of seventy8 ,who will pay for your doctors when you become ill2 your lawyers when you have a law suit8 ,finally1 what will ,i do when this trickster1 this hypocrite1 ,anitus and his party that you could have won over to yourself conspire to persecute you1 as they've done so many times8 ,heaven confound philosophers and philosophy1 and my stupid friendship for you6 ,you meddle to direct others when you need to be led about4 ,you argue endlessly and you have no common sense4 ,if you weren't the best man in the world1 you would be the most ridiculous and unbearable4 ,listen3 ,only one word will work4 ,instantly break off this impertinent bargain and do what your wife wishes4 ,,socrates3 ,my dear ,xantippe1 it's quite well to speak and with moderation2 but listen to me in your turn4 ,i didn't propose this marriage4 ,sophronine and ,aglaea love each other and are worthy of each other4 ,i've already given you all the wealth that ,i could grant you under the laws4 ,i am giving almost all which remains to me to the daughter of my friend4 ,the little ,i am keeping will suffice for me4 ,i have neither doctors to pay1 because ,i am sober1 nor lawyers1 because ,i have no debts4 ,with regard to the philosophy for which you reproach me it teaches me how to suffer the indignities of ,anitus and your reproaches4 ,to love you despite your temper4 7he leaves7 ,,xantippe3 ,the old fool6 ,i have to respect him despite himself1 for after all1 there's ,i don't know what of grandeur in his folly4 ,the calm of his extravagances enrages me4 ,it's useless for me to scold him2 ,i waste my efforts4 ,i've been screaming at him for thirty years1 and when ,i've really screamed he overawes me and ,i am really confounded4 ,could he have something in his soul superior to mine8 ,,drixa3 7entering7 ,well1 ,madam ,xantippe6 ,see how you are mistress in your own house6 ,fie6 ,how cowardly to allow oneself to be governed by one's husband6 ,this cursed ,socrates has carried off this handsome boy whose fortune ,i wanted to make6 ,the traitor6 ,he will pay me for that6 ,,xantippe3 ,my poor ,madame ,drixa1 don't be angry with my husband4 ,i am sufficiently angry with him4 ,he's an imbecile1 ,i know that very well4 ,but at bottom1 he's got the best heart in the world4 ,there's no malice in him4 ,he commits every possible stupidity without intending any trickery and with so much integrity that it's disarming4 ,anyway1 he's headstrong like a mule4 ,i've spent my life torturing him2 ,i've even beaten him sometimes4 ,not only have ,i been unable to correct him1 ,i haven't even been able to anger him4 ,what do you expect me to do8 ,,drixa3 ,i will avenge myself1 ,i tell you4 ,i notice under the porticoes his good friend ,anitus and some of ours4 ,let me alone4 ,,xantippe3 ,my ,god6 ,i fear that all these folks may play my husband some trick4 ,let's go quickly to warn him4 for after all1 one cannot help loving him4 7,exit ,xantippe7 ,,drixa3 ,our insults are alike1 respected ,anitus4 ,you are betrayed like me4 ,this dishonest man1 ,socrates1 is giving almost all his wealth to ,aglaea only to drive you to despair4 ,you must exact an exemplary vengeance4 ,,anitus3 ,that's indeed my intention2 heaven is concerned in it4 ,since he disdains me1 this man doubtless scorns the gods4 ,accusations have already been brought against him2 you must help me to renew them4 ,we'll put him in danger of his life4 ,then ,i will offer him my protection on the condition that he gives me ,aglaea and surrenders your handsome ,sophronine to you4 ,that way we will fulfill all our duties4 ,he will be punished by the fright we have given him4 ,i will obtain my mistress and you shall have your lover4 ,,drixa3 ,you speak like wisdom itself4 ,some divinity must inspire you4 ,instruct us3 what must be done8 ,,anitus3 ,the judges will soon pass here to go to the ,tribunal2 ,melitus is at their head4 ,,drixa3 ,but that ,melitus is a little pedant2 an evil man who is your enemy4 ,,anitus3 ,yes1 but he's even more an enemy of ,socrates4 ,he's a hypocritical rogue who maintains the rights of the ,areopagus against me4 ,but we will join together when it's a question of ruining those false wise men who are capable of enlightening the people about our conduct4 ,listen1 my dear ,drixa1 you are devout4 ,,drixa3 ,yes1 assuredly1 my lord4 ,i love money and pleasure with all my heart1 but as regards devotion1 ,i will give place to no one4 ,,anitus3 ,go take some devout people with you and when the judges pass by1 scream out against impiety4 ,,terpandre3 ,will there be something to gain by it8 ,we are ready4 ,,acros3 ,yes4 ,but what kind of impiety8 ,,anitus3 ,all types4 ,you have only to accuse him boldly of not believing in the gods4 ,that's the quickest way4 ,,drixa3 ,oh6 ,let me do it4 ,,anitus3 ,you will be perfectly seconded4 ,go under these porticoes2 stir up your friends4 ,meanwhile1 ,i am going to instruct some newsmongers of the controversy1 some hack scribblers who often come to dine with me4 ,they are very despicable people1 ,i admit4 ,but1 when they are carefully directed1 on occasion1 they can do harm4 ,all means must be used to make the good cause triumph4 ,go1 my dear friends4 ,commend yourselves to ,ceres4 ,you will shout on my given signal4 ,it's the sure way of gaining hearers1 and especially to live happily on earth4 7,they leave2 ,nonoti1 ,chomos and ,bertios enter7 ,,anitus3 ,tireless1 ,nonoti1 deep ,chomos1 fastidious ,bertios2 have you prepared against this evil ,socrates the little works ,i ordered8 ,,nonoti3 ,i have labored1 ,milord2 he won't recover from it4 ,,chomos3 ,i have demonstrated the truth against him4 ,he is confounded4 ,,bertios3 ,i said only one word in my paper3 he is ruined4 ,,anitus3 ,take care1 ,nonoti4 ,i forbade you to be prolix4 ,you are naturally boring2 you could try the patience of the court4 ,,nonoti3 ,milord1 ,i've written only a page4 ,there ,i prove that the soul is an infused quintessence2 that tails are given to animals to shoo flies2 that love works miracles1 and that consequently ,socrates is an enemy of the state who must be exterminated4 ,,anitus3 ,you couldn't draw a better conclusion4 ,go bring your accusation to the second judge1 who is an excellent philosopher4 ,i will answer for it4 ,you will soon defeat your enemy ,socrates4 ,,nonoti3 ,milord1 ,i am not his enemy4 ,i am only annoyed that he's got too great a reputation1 and all that ,i am doing is for the glory of ,ceres1 and the good of the country4 ,,anitus3 ,go1 ,i tell you4 ,hurry up4 ,well1 wise ,chomos1 what have you done8 ,,chomos3 ,milord1 not having found anything to reprove in ,socrates' writings1 ,i've adroitly accused him of thinking contrary to what he says4 ,i point out the venom in what he says4 ,,anitus3 ,marvelous4 ,take that piece to the fourth judge4 ,he's a man who lacks common sense and will understand you perfectly4 ,and you1 ,bertios8 ,,bertios3 ,milord1 here's my last paper on chaos4 ,i show1 cleverly passing from chaos to the ,olympic games1 that ,socrates is perverting the youth4 ,,anitus3 ,admirable6 ,go on my behalf to the seventh judge and tell him that ,i commend ,socrates to him4 ,fine1 here's ,melitus already1 the ,chief of the ,eleven coming forward4 ,there's no beating around the bush to be done with him4 ,we know each other1 too well4 7,exit ,bertios and ,chomos1 enter ,melitus47 ,,anitus3 ,your honor1 the judge1 a word4 ,socrates must be destroyed4 ,,melitus3 ,your ,reverence1 the ,priest1 ,i've been pondering it for a long while4 ,let's unite on this point and we will be less embroiled on the rest4 ,,anitus3 ,i know quite well we hate each other4 ,but while detesting each other1 we must unite to govern the republic4 ,,melitus3 ,agreed4 ,no one can hear us here4 ,i know that you are a fraud4 ,you don't look on me as an honest man4 ,i cannot injure you because you are a high priest4 ,you cannot ruin me because ,i am the leading judge1 ,but ,socrates could hurt either of us by unmasking us4 ,you and ,i must begin by compassing his death and then we will see how we can exterminate each other at the first opportunity4 ,,anitus3 ,no one could say it better4 7,aside7 ,hum6 ,how ,i'd like to hold this rascal from the ,areopagus on an altar1 arms hanging on one side1 legs over the other1 so as to open his stomach with my golden knife and consult his liver at my ease4 ,,melitus3 7aside7 ,will ,i ever get this gallows bird of a ,high ,priest in jail and make him drink a pint of ,hemlock at my pleasure8 ,,anitus3 ,there now1 my dear chap1 there are your comrades who are coming forward4 ,i've prepared the mood of the people4 ,,melitus3 ,very fine1 my dear ally4 ,count on me as yourself at this moment4 ,but the grudge still remains4 7,some judges pass through the porticoes4 ,anitus whispers in ,melitus' ear47 ,,drixa1 ,,terpandre1 ,,acros3 ,justice6 ,justice6 ,scandal1 impiety6 ,justice1 justice6 ,irreligion1 impiety6 ,justice6 ,,anitus3 ,what's all this1 my friends8 ,of what are you complaining8 ,,drixa1 ,,terpandre1 ,,acros3 ,justice6 ,in the name of the people4 ,,melitus3 ,against whom8 ,,drixa1 ,,terpandre1 ,,acros3 ,against ,socrates4 ,,melitus3 ,ah6 ah6 ,against ,socrates8 ,it's not the first time he's been complained of4 ,what's he done8 ,,acros3 ,i don't know anything about it4 ,,terpandre3 ,they say that he gives money to girls to get married4 ,,acros3 ,yes4 ,he's corrupting the youth4 ,,drixa3 ,he's impious4 ,he never offers gifts to ,ceres4 ,he says there's too much gold and too much useless money in the temples4 ,that the poor are dying of hunger and that they must be helped4 ,,acros3 ,yes1 he says that the priests of ,ceres sometimes get drunk4 ,it's true1 he's impious4 ,,drixa3 ,he's a heretic4 ,he denies the plurality of the gods4 ,he's a deist4 ,he believes only in one ,god4 ,he's an atheist4 ,,melitus3 ,now these are very grave accusations and very credible4 ,they've already informed me of all that you are telling us4 ,,anitus3 ,if such horrors are allowed to go unpunished1 the state is in danger4 ,minerva will withhold her aid from us4 ,,drixa3 ,yes1 ,minerva without doubt4 ,i heard him make jokes about the owl of ,minerva4 ,,melitus3 ,about the owl of ,minerva6 ,oh6 ,heavens6 ,aren't you of the opinion he should be put in prison immediately8 ,,judges3 7together7 ,yes1 in prison4 ,right away4 ,in prison6 ,,melitus3 ,ushers6 ,take ,socrates to prison immediately4 ,,drixa3 ,and there let him be burned without having been heard4 ,,one ,,of ,,the ,,judges3 ,ah6 ,he must at least be heard6 ,we cannot infringe the law4 ,,anitus3 ,what this fine1 pious man means is--he must be heard1 but one cannot be surprised by what he says4 ,for you know these philosophers are diabolically clever4 ,where we bring harmony1 they disturb all the ,estates4 ,,melitus3 ,to prison6 to prison6 7,xantippe1 ,sophronine1 ,aglaea enter4 ,then ,socrates1 enchained47 ,,xantippe3 ,ah1 mercy6 ,they are dragging my husband to prison4 ,honorable judges1 aren't you ashamed to treat a man of his age thus8 ,what evil could he do8 ,he is incapable of it4 ,alas1 he's more stupid than bad4 ,gentlemen1 take pity on him4 ,indeed1 ,i told you1 my husband1 that you would get yourself into some bad business4 ,that's what comes of dowering girls4 ,how unhappy ,i am6 ,,sophronine3 ,ah1 gentlemen4 ,respect his age and his virtue4 ,put me in irons4 ,i am ready to give my liberty and my life for his4 ,,aglaea3 ,yes4 ,we will go to prison in place of him4 ,we will die for him if need be4 ,don't seek the life of the greatest of men4 ,take us for your victims4 ,,melitus3 ,you see how he corrupts the youth6 ,,socrates3 ,cease1 my wife2 cease1 my children to set yourselves up in opposition to the will of heaven4 ,it is manifesting itself through the organ of the laws4 ,whoever resists the law is unworthy of being a citizen4 ,god wished that ,i be put in irons2 ,i submit to his decrees without a murmur4 ,in my house1 in ,athens1 in a prison cell1 ,i am equally free4 ,and in you ,i see so much sincere gratitude1 so much friendship that ,i am still happy4 ,what does it matter whether ,socrates sleeps in his room or in an ,athenian prison8 ,everything is in the eternal order of things and my will must be there4 ,,melitus3 ,let them take away this dialectician4 ,that's how they all are4 ,they press you with arguments right under the gallows4 ,,anitus3 ,gentlemen1 what has just been said touches me4 ,this man shows good disposition4 ,i flatter myself ,i am able to convert him4 ,let me speak to him a moment in private4 ,and order his wife and these young people to retire4 ,a ,,judge3 ,we indeed wish it1 venerable ,anitus4 ,you can speak to him before he appears before our tribunal4 7,they exit leaving ,socrates alone with ,anitus47 ,,anitus3 ,virtuous ,socrates1 my heart bleeds to see you in this condition4 ,,socrates3 ,you actually have a heart8 ,,anitus3 ,yes1 and ,i am ready to do everything for you4 ,,socrates3 ,really8 ,i'm convinced you've done much already4 ,,anitus3 ,listen4 ,your situation is more dangerous than you think4 ,it goes to your life4 ,,socrates3 ,then it's a question of a little thing4 ,,anitus3 ,it's little to your intrepid and sublime soul4 ,to the eyes of those who cherish1 as ,i do1 your virtue1 it's everything4 ,believe me1 with whatever philosophy your souls may be armed1 it is hard to perish by execution4 ,that's not all3 your reputation which must be dear to you will be tarnished throughout the centuries4 ,not only will all the bigots laugh over your death1 they will insult you1 light the pyre on which you will burn if they burn you1 tighten the rope if they strangle you1 grind the ,hemlock if they poison you4 ,but they will render your memory execrable to the entire future4 ,you can easily avoid such a funereal end4 ,i will answer for saving your life1 and even will have you declared by the judges to be the wisest of men1 as you were by the oracle of ,apollo4 ,it's only a question of giving me your pupil ,aglaea4 ,with the dowry you are giving her1 understood4 ,we can easily break off her marriage with ,sophronine4 ,you will enjoy a peaceable and honorable old age and the gods and goddesses will bless you4 ,,socrates3 ,guards6 ,take me to prison without further delay4 7,they lead him away47 ,,anitus3 ,this man is incorrigible4 ,it's not my fault4 ,i have nothing to reproach myself with4 ,he must be abandoned to his reprobate opinions and allowed to die unrepentant4 ,,curtain ,,act ,,iii 7,the ,judges are seated on a tribunal4 ,socrates is standing47 ,a ,,judge3 7to ,anitus7 ,you mustn't sit here4 ,you are a priest of ,ceres4 ,,anitus3 ,i am only here for edification4 ,,melitus3 ,silence4 ,listen1 ,socrates1 you are accused of being a bad citizen2 of corrupting the youth2 of denying the plurality of the gods2 of being a heretic1 deist1 atheist4 ,answer4 ,,socrates3 ,athenian ,judges1 ,i exhort you always to be good citizens as ,i have always tried to be4 ,to shed your blood for the country as ,i have done in more than one battle4 ,regarding the youth of which you speak1 do not cease to guide them through your admonitions1 and especially by your examples2 teach them to love true virtue1 and to flee the wretched philosophy of the school2 the article of the plurality of the gods is a bit difficult to discuss1 but you will easily understand me4 ,athenian ,judges1 there is only one ,god4 ,,melitus ,,and ,,another ,,judge3 ,oh1 the knave4 ,,socrates3 ,there is only one ,god1 ,i tell you4 ,his nature is to be infinite4 ,no being can share his infinity with him4 ,raise your eyes toward the celestial globes1 turn them towards earth and the sea4 ,all corresponds1 all is made for each other4 ,each being is intimately linked to other beings4 ,everything is of the same design4 ,there is only a single architect1 a single master1 a single guardian4 ,perhaps he's deigned to form some genies1 some demons1 more powerful and more enlightened than men4 ,and if they exist they are creatures like you2 they are his first subjects and not gods at all4 ,but nothing in nature advertises to us that they exist1 while all nature announces to us one ,god and one ,father4 ,this ,god has no need of ,mercury and ,iris to signify his orders4 ,he has only to will it and that's enough4 ,if by ,minerva1 you understand only the wisdom of ,god1 if by ,neptune you intend only his immutable laws which raise and lower the seas1 ,i would say to you3 ,he allows you to revere ,neptune and ,minerva1 since under these emblems you are still adoring only the eternal ,being1 and so long as you are not giving occasion to people to misunderstand it4 ,,anitus3 ,what impious balderdash4 ,,socrates3 ,always beware of turning religion into metaphysics3 ,morality is its essence4 ,adore and stop disputing4 ,if our ancestors had said that the ,supreme ,god had descended into the arms of ,alcmene1 of ,danae1 of ,semele1 and that he had children with them1 our ancestors were imagining dangerous fables4 ,it's insulting to the ,divinity to pretend that he had committed with a woman in whatever manner it might be what we would call amongst men an adultery4 ,that's discouraging to the rest of men to say that to be a great man1 one must be born from the mysterious coupling with one of your wives or daughters4 ,miltiades1 ,cimon1 ,themistocles1 ,arisitides1 that you persecuted were perhaps worth more than ,perseus1 ,herakles and ,bacchus4 ,there being no other way to be the children of this ,god than by trying to please him1 and by being just4 ,deserve that title by never rendering iniquitous judgments4 ,,melitus3 ,what blasphemies and insolence6 ,,another ,,judge3 ,what absurdities6 ,no one knows what he means4 ,,melitus3 ,socrates1 if you always continue to argue1 this is not what we need4 ,answer briefly and precisely4 ,did you make fun of the owl of ,minerva8 ,,socrates3 ,athenian judges1 take care of your owls6 ,when you propose ridiculous things to believe1 too many men will choose to believe nothing at all4 ,they have enough wit to see that your doctrine is impertinent1 ,but they don't have enough to raise themselves to the true law4 ,they know how to laugh at your little gods4 ,they don't know how to adore the ,god of all beings1 unique1 incomprehensible1 incommunicable1 eternal1 and all just as well as all powerful4 ,,melitus3 ,ah6 ,the blasphemer6 ah1 the monster6 ,he's said more than enough4 ,i conclude for death4 ,,several ,,judges3 ,and we1 too4 ,a ,,judge3 ,several of us are not of that opinion4 ,we think that ,socrates spoke very well4 ,we believe that men would be more just and more wise if they thought like him4 ,and as for me1 far from condemning him1 ,i am of the opinion he ought to be rewarded4 ,,several ,,judges3 ,we think the same4 ,,melitus3 ,the opinions seems to be divided4 ,,anitus3 ,gentlemen of the ,areopagus1 let me question ,socrates4 ,do you think that the ,sun turns and that the ,areopagus is of ,divine ,right8 ,,socrates3 ,you have no right to ask me questions4 ,but ,i have the right to show you what you are ignorant of4 ,it matters little to society whether the earth may turn1 but it matters greatly that men who turn with it be just4 ,virtue alone is of ,divine ,right4 ,and you1 the ,areopagus have no other rights but those the nation has given you4 ,,anitus3 ,illustrious and equitable judges make ,socrates leave4 7,melitus gives a sign4 ,they lead ,socrates out4 ,anitus continues47 ,august ,areopagus1 instituted by heaven1 you have heard him4 ,this dangerous man denies that the ,sun turns1 and that you are filled with ,divine ,right4 ,if these horrible opinions spread1 no more magistrates1 no more ,sun2 you will no longer be those judges established by the fundamental laws of ,minerva2 you are no longer masters of the state1 you must no longer judge except by following the laws4 ,and if you depend on the laws1 you are ruined4 ,punish the rebellion1 avenge heaven and earth4 ,i am leaving3 ,fear the anger of the gods if ,socrates remains alive4 7,anitus leaves and the judges opine47 ,a ,,judge3 ,i don't wish a quarrel with ,anitus2 he's a man much to be feared4 ,if it were only a question of the gods it would still be overlooked4 ,a ,,judge3 7to whom he just spoke7 ,between ourselves1 ,socrates is right4 ,but he's wrong to be right so publicly4 ,i don't make more of the case of ,ceres or ,neptune than he does4 ,but he ought not to say before the whole ,areopagus what should only be whispered in the ear4 ,where1 after all1 is the evil in poisoning a philosopher1 especially when he's old and ugly8 ,,another ,,judge3 ,if there is injustice in condemning ,socrates1 ,that's ,anitus' affair4 ,it's not mine4 ,i put it all on his conscience4 ,anyway1 it's late1 we're wasting his time6 ,to death1 to death and no more discussion about it4 ,,another3 ,they say he's a heretic and an atheist4 ,to death4 ,to death4 ,,melitus3 ,let them call ,socrates4 7,socrates is brought in7 ,the gods be blessed2 the plurality is for death4 ,socrates1 the gods condemn you through our mouth to drink ,hemlock so that death will follow4 ,,socrates3 ,we are all mortal4 ,nature condemns you all to die in a short time4 ,and probably you will all have an end sadder than mine4 ,diseases which lead to death are worse than a goblet of ,hemlock4 ,as to the rest1 ,i owe praise to the judges who opined in favor of innocence4 ,to the others1 ,i owe only my pity4 ,,one ,,judge3 7leaving7 ,certainly this man deserves a state pension rather than a bowl of ,hemlock4 ,,another ,,judge3 ,that's true2 but at the same time what's the point of getting embroiled with a priest of ,ceres8 ,,another ,,judge3 ,i'm really quite comfortable in putting a philosopher to death4 ,those folk have a certain pride in wit which it's good to humble a little4 ,,one ,,judge3 ,gentlemen1 one thing4 ,while our shoulder is at the wheel1 wouldn't we do better to put to death all the geometers who pretend that the three angles of a triangle add up to two right angles8 ,they strangely scandalize the populace that reads their books4 ,,another ,,judge3 ,yes1 yes1 we'll hang them at the next session4 ,let's go to dinner4 7,exit the judges47 7,there should be a scene change here to ,socrates cell4 ,but there is no indication in the text47 ,,socrates3 ,i've been prepared for death for a long while4 ,all that worries me now is that my wife1 ,xantippe may come trouble my last moments and interrupt the sweet composure of my soul3 ,i mustn't be occupied except with the ,supreme ,being before whom ,i must soon appear4 ,but here she is3 ,i've got to be resigned to everything4 ,,xantippe3 7entering7 ,well6 ,poor man6 ,what have these law folk concluded8 ,are you condemned to a fine8 are you banished8 ,are you absolved8 ,my ,god6 ,how you've upset me6 ,try1 ,i beg you1 not to let this happen again4 ,,socrates3 ,no1 my wife4 ,i'll answer for that4 ,it won't happen again4 ,you won't be troubled by anything4 7,enter ,disciples7 ,be welcome1 my dear disciples1 my friends4 ,,crito3 7at the head of ,socrates' ,disciples7 ,you sees us as alarmed at your fate as your wife1 ,xantippe4 ,we have obtained from the judges1 permission to see you4 ,just heaven6 ,must we see ,socrates burdened with chains8 ,allow us to kiss these irons that honor you and are the shame of ,athens4 ,is it possible that ,anitus and his accomplices have been able to put you in this condition8 ,,socrates3 ,my dear friends1 let's not think of these trivia and let's continue the discussion we were having yesterday about the immortality of the soul4 ,it seems to me we were saying that nothing is more probable than that idea4 ,indeed1 matter changes and never perishes2 why should the soul perish8 ,could it be made so that we1 being elevated to consciousness of a ,god through the veil of the mortal body1 would cease to know ,him when the veil falls4 ,no4 ,since we think1 we will think forever2 thought is the being of man4 ,that being will appear before a just ,god who rewards virtue1 who punishes crime and who excuses weakness4 ,,xantippe3 ,that's well said3 ,i didn't understand any of it4 ,to always think because one has thought6 ,does one always wipe one's nose because one has wiped it before4 ,but who's this villainous man with his bowl8 ,,jailor ,,or ,,servant ,,of ,,the ,,eleven3 7bringing the cup of ,hemlock7 ,here6 ,socrates3 this is what the ,senate sends you4 ,,xantippe3 ,what6 ,cursed poisoner of the republic1 you come here to kill my husband in my presence6 ,i will disfigure you1 monster6 ,,socrates3 ,my dear friend1 ,i ask your pardon for my wife4 ,she's always scolded her husband4 ,she's treating you the same way4 ,i beg you to excuse this little excitement4 ,give it to me4 7taking the bowl7 ,,one ,,of ,,the ,,disciples3 ,let it be permitted for us to take this poison1 divine ,socrates4 ,by what horrible injustice are you ravished from us8 ,why8 ,the criminals have condemned the just4 ,the fanatics have proscribed the wise man6 ,you are going to die4 ,,socrates3 ,no1 ,i am going to live4 ,here's the brew of immortality4 ,it's not the perishable body that you loved1 that instructed you1 it's my soul alone that lived with you4 ,and it will love you forever4 7wants to drink7 ,,servant ,,of ,,the ,,eleven3 ,first1 ,i must remove your chains4 ,that's the rule4 ,,socrates3 ,if it's the rule1 remove them4 7he scratches his leg a bit7 ,,one ,,of ,,his ,,disciples3 ,what6 ,you are smiling8 ,,socrates3 ,i am smiling4 ,reflecting that pleasure comes from pain4 ,it's in this manner that ,eternal ,happiness will be born from the miseries of life4 7,socrates drinks7 ,,crito3 ,alas1 what have you done8 ,,xantippe3 ,alas1 it's for ,i don't know how many ridiculous speeches of this sort that they are making this poor man die4 ,truly1 my husband1 you break my heart and ,i will strangle all the judges with my own hands4 ,i scolded you1 but ,i loved you3 and these are the polite folk who've poisoned you4 ,ah6 ah6 ,my dear husband1 ah6 ,,socrates3 ,calm yourself1 my good ,xantippe4 ,don't cry any more my friends4 ,it doesn't become disciples of ,socrates to shed tears4 ,,crito3 ,and can one not pour them out after this frightful sentence1 after this judicial poisoning ordered by perverse ignorance1 who've bought with fifty thousand drachmas the right to murder their fellow citizens with impunity8 ,,socrates3 ,that's the way they often treat the worshippers of a single ,god1 and the enemies of superstition4 ,,crito3 ,alas6 ,must you be one of those victims8 ,,socrates3 ,it's beautiful to be the victim of ,divinity4 ,i am dying satisfied4 ,it's true ,i would have liked to join to the consolation of seeing you that of ,sophronine and ,aglaea as well4 ,i am astonished not to see them4 ,they would have rendered my last moments even sweeter than they are4 ,,crito3 ,alas1 they are unaware that you have consummated the iniquity of your judges4 ,they are speaking to the people4 ,they are encouraging the magistrates who took your part4 ,aglaea is revealing the crime of ,anitus4 ,his shame is going to be public4 ,aglaea and ,sophronine perhaps would have saved your life4 ,ah6 ,dear ,socrates1 why did you hurry your last moments4 ,,aglaea3 7entering with ,sophronine7 ,divine ,socrates1 fear nothing4 ,xantippe console yourself4 ,worthy disciples don't weep4 ,,sophronine3 ,your enemies are confounded2 all the people are coming to your defense4 ,,aglaea3 ,we've spoken out4 ,we've revealed the jealousy and intrigue of the impious ,anitus4 ,it was up to me to demand justice for his crime since ,i was the cause of it4 ,,sophronine3 ,anitus escaped by flight before the fury of the people4 ,they are pursuing him and his accomplices4 ,they are giving solemn thanks to the judges who opined in your favor4 ,the people are at the gate of the prison1 waiting for you to appear1 to escort you home in triumph4 ,all the judges have recanted4 ,,xantippe3 ,alas1 such pains wasted4 ,,one ,,of ,,the ,,disciples3 ,o heaven6 ,o ,socrates6 ,why did you obey8 ,,aglaea3 ,live1 dear ,socrates1 benefactor of your country1 model of men4 ,live for the happiness of the world4 ,,crito3 ,virtuous couple1 worthy friends1 there's no longer time4 ,,xantippe3 ,you are too late4 ,,aglaea3 ,what8 ,there's no time8 ,just heaven6 ,,sophronine3 ,what6 ,socrates has already drunk the poisoned cup8 ,,socrates3 ,loveable ,aglaea1 tender ,sophronine1 the law ordained that ,i take the poison4 ,i've obeyed the law1 all unjust that it is--because it oppressed only me4 ,if this injustice were directed toward another ,i would have fought it4 ,i am going to die1 but the example of friendship and greatness of soul that you are giving to the world will never perish4 ,your virtue prevails over the crime of those who accused me4 ,i bless what they call my misfortune4 ,it has given birth to the strength of your beautiful soul4 ,my dear ,xantippe1 be happy and think that to be so one must subdue one's temper4 ,my beloved disciples harken always to the voice of philosophy which scorns persecutors and which takes pity on human weakness4 ,and you1 my daughter1 ,aglaea1 my son1 ,sophronine1 be always that way yourselves4 ,,aglaea3 ,how we are to be pitied not to be able to die for you6 ,,socrates3 ,your life is precious1 mine is useless1 ,receive my tender and last farewells4 ,the doors of eternity are opening for me4 ,,xantippe3 ,come to think of it1 he was a great man4 ,ah1 ,i am going to rouse the nation and eat ,anitus' heart6 ,,sophronine3 ,we could raise temples to ,socrates as a man deserving of it4 ,,crito3 ,at least may his wisdom teach men that it is to ,god alone that we owe temples4 ,,curtain