Readings 35.2: Plato, Phaedo 58a1-c5
Plato’s dialogue Phaedo provides an account of the last day of Socrates’ life. It begins with a man named Echecrates, a Pythagorean who has been exiled from Italy and is now in the Greek city of Phlius. He meets Phaedo and asks for information about Socrates’ final hours. Echecrates has just explained that in Phlius they have heard very little about how it all happened:
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Οὐδὲ τὰ περὶ τῆς δίκης ἄρα ἐπύθεσθε ὃν τρόπον ἐγένετο;
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