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[ 43a - 44 b ] [ 44c - 46a ] [ 46b - 49 a ] [ 49b- 50c ] [ 50d - 51c] [ 51d - 53a] [ 53b - 54a ] |
1. Arrival of the Ship43a - 44b |
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43a |
Socrates. Why have you come at this hour, Crito? It must be | Jowett's Notes |
| quite early. | (in progress) |
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| Crito. Yes, certainly | ||
 Crito visits Socrates at the
Jail in the Agora
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Crito appears at break of dawn in the prison of Socrates whom he finds asleep. | |
| Soc. What is the exact time? | ||
| Cr. The dawn is breaking | ||
| Soc. I wonder the keeper of the prison would let you in. | ||
| Cr. He knows me because I often come, Socrates; moreover, | ||
| I have done him a kindness. | ||
| Soc. And are you only just come? | ||
| Cr. No, I came some time ago. | ||
43b |
Soc. Then why did you sit and say nothing, instead of | |
| awakening me at once? | ||
| Cr. Why, indeed, Socrates, I myself would rather not have all | ||
| this sleeplessness and sorrow. But I have been wondering at | ||
| your peaceful slumbers, and that was the reason why I did not | ||
| awaken you, because I wanted you to be out of pain. I | ||
| have always thought you happy in the calmness of your | ||
| temperament; but never did I see the like of the easy, | ||
| cheerful way in which you bear this calamity. | ||
| Soc. Why, Crito, when a man has reached my age he ought | ||
43c |
not to be repining at the prospect of death. | |
| Cr. And yet other old men find themselves in similar | ||
| misfortunes, and age does not prevent them from repining. | ||
| Soc. That may be. But you have not told me why you | ||
| come at this early hour. | ||
| Cr. I come to bring you a message which is sad and painful; | The ship from | |
| not, as I believe, to yourself, but to all of us who are your | Delos is expected. | |
| friends, and saddest of all to me. | ||
| Soc. What! I suppose that the ship has come from Delos, | ||
43d |
on the arrival of which I am to die? | |
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| Cr. No, the ship has not actually arrived, but she will probably | ||
| be here to-day, as persons who have come from Sunium tell | ||
| me that they left her there; and therefore tomorrow, Socrates, | ||
| will be the last day of your life. | ||
| Soc. Very well, Crito; if such is the will of God, I am willing; | ||
44a |
but my belief is that there will be a delay of a day. | |
| Cr. Why do you say this? | ||
| Soc. I will tell you. I am to die on the day after the | ||
| arrival of the ship? | ||
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| Cr. Yes; that is what the authorities say. | ||
| Soc. But I do not think that the ship will be here until | A vision of a fair | |
| tomorrow; this I gather from a vision which I had last night, | woman who | |
| or rather only just now, when you fortunately allowed me | prophesies in the | |
| to sleep. | language of Homer | |
| that Socrates will | ||
| Cr. And what was the nature of the vision? | die on the third day. | |
| Soc. There came to me the likeness of a woman, fair and | ||
| comely, clothed in white raiment, who called to me and said: | ||
44b |
O Socrates -- |
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| "The third day hence, to Phthia shalt thou go." | ||
| Cr. What a singular dream, Socrates! | ||
| Soc. There can be no doubt about the meaning, Crito, I think. | ||
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