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Do so. Fly down and proclaim that there will be a session of court under the following regulations. All who have entered suit are to come to the Areopagus to-day; at that place Justice is to empanel juries for them out of the entire body of Athenians, the number of jurymen to depend upon the penalty involved; and if anyone thinks that his hearing has been unjust, he is to be allowed to appeal to me and have the case tried afresh, just as if it had not been tried at all. (Zo Justice) Daughter, take your place beside the Dread Goddesses,The Eumenides, since the trial of Orestes, had an altar on the Areopagus. empanel the juries and have an eye on the trials.
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Back to earth once more, to be driven off by them and to flee from the world again because I cannot stand being laughed at by Injustice?
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You must be of good hope. Certainly by now the philosophers have persuaded them to regard you more highly than Injustice; especially the son of Sophroniscus,Socrates. who praised just dealing to the skies and declared it the greatest of blessings.
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Truly the very man you mention profited greatly by his talk about me! He was handed over to the Eleven, thrown into prison, and drank hemlock, poor fellow, before he had even paid that cock to Asclepius;His last words were: “Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it without fail.” (End of Phaedo). so much the better of the argument had his accusers, whose philosophy was directly opposed to his, and favoured Injustice.
