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How strange then that Socrates should have been so treated by the Athenians. Slave, why do you say Socrates? Speak of the thing as it is: how strange that the poor body of Socrates should have been carried off and dragged to prison by stronger men, and that any one should have given hemlock to the poor body of Socrates, and that it should breathe out the life. Do these things seem strange, do they seem unjust, do you on account of these things blame God? Had Socrates then no equivalent for these things? Where then for him was the nature of good? Whom shall we listen to, you or him? And what does Socrates say? Anytus and MelitusThe two chief prosecutors of Socrates (Plato, Apology, c. 18; Epictetus, ii 2, 15). can kill me, but they cannot hurt me: and further, he says, If it so pleases God, so let it be.
