SOCRATES, APOLOGY OF

SOCRATES, APOLOGY OF
   a work of Plato's, being a speech put into the mouth of Socrates before the AREOPAGUS (q.v.) in his defence in answer to the charge brought against him, and which Plato wrote after his death.

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