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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1870. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APOLOGY OF SOCRATES. (translation Vol. I.) Unlike most of the other writings of Plato, this is chiefly in the form of harangue rather than dialogue, professing to be the defence of Socrates before his judges. Its genuineness is universally admitted. Among the numerous falsehoods alleged by the plaintiff, Socrates is surprised to find hjjnselfahaxg§d_ with being_a mas&rr-riujHye eloquence,; he_dfinies_Jthis, irnlpgg-QlaqjioT)f£To_ ».iV.or nrCLT--ff.!! 2T'+ (Tr. 3; '..17 A, B.) The truth will be uttered by him in its simple unsophisticated nakedness, and not as by the adversary in picked phrases and studied ornateness, in a ay becoming an old man more than seventy years of e, now brought, for the first time, before a public trinal. (Tr. 3; 17 0, D.) "The true excellency of a ge is tQ discern whether the party arraigned says what just; that of an orator is to say what is true. (Tr. 4 A.) I have oftenjbeen accused byjersons, of whom I m more afraid than of Anytus and his clique, of prying to celestial things and the mysteries of the lower world, d of making the worse appear the better reason. (Tr. E:; 18 B.) They pretend to assert that those who do jiese things are atheists, and they have taken occasion to aduce me in my absence, and to prepossess your minds gainst me, in the credulous period of youth. (Tr. 4; B 2-.TZ'-'.:' ' '.'.PLlTO, teans. 18 C.) Chief of all is a well-known comic poet, whom 1 could name, and there are others who will not come openly forward, so that I must fight, as it were, with shadows, and my accusers are thus of two kinds. (Tr. 4; 18 D, E.) With God's approbation, I will proceed to defend myself, though I know the difficulty; and first, let me repeat the unfounded charge of Meletus, that I am impiously curious, making the w...