The Apology of Socrates to the Jury, 29

Xenophon  translated by O. J. Todd

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29It is said also that he remarked as he saw Anytus[6] passing by: “There goes a man who is filled with pride at the thought that he has accomplished some great and noble end in putting me to death, because, seeing him honoured by the state with the highest offices, I said that he ought not to confine his son’s education to hides.[7] What a vicious fellow,” he continued, “not to know, apparently, that whichever one of us has wrought the more beneficial and noble deeds for all time, he is the real victor.

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Notes

  • [6] One of the three plaintiffs in Socrates' trial.

  • [7] The tanning trade had been in the family from at least the time of the boy's grandfather.