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Stephanus 28b
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ἄνδρας ᾕρηκεν, οἶμαι δὲ καὶ αἱρήσει· οὐδὲν δὲ δεινὸν μὴ ἐν ἐμοὶ στῇ.ἴσως ἂν οὖν εἴποι τις· εἶτʼ οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ, ὦ Σώκρατες, τοιοῦτον ἐπιτήδευμα ἐπιτηδεύσας ἐξ οὗ κινδυνεύεις νυνὶ ἀποθανεῖν; ἐγὼ δὲ τούτῳ ἂν δίκαιον λόγον ἀντείποιμι, ὅτι οὐ καλῶς λέγεις, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, εἰ οἴει δεῖν κίνδυνον ὑπολογίζεσθαι τοῦ ζῆν ἢ τεθνάναι ἄνδρα ὅτου τι καὶ σμικρὸν ὄφελός ἐστιν, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκεῖνο μόνον σκοπεῖν ὅταν πράττῃ, πότερον δίκαια ἢ ἄδικα πράττει, καὶ ἀνδρὸς ἀγαθοῦ ἔργα ἢ κακοῦ. φαῦλοι
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men, and I think they will continue to do so. There is no danger that they will stop with me.
Perhaps someone might say: “Are you not ashamed, Socrates, to have pursued a way of life that now puts you in danger of death?” But I should answer him justly: “You do not speak well, sir, if you think that a man worth even a little should calculate the danger of living or dying, instead of considering one thing alone whenever he acts: whether what he is doing is just or unjust, and the work of a good man or a bad one.” For by your account, all those demigods who died at Troy would have been worthless,
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men, and I think they will continue to do so. There is no danger that they will stop with me.
Someone might perhaps say, “Aren’t you ashamed, Socrates, to have followed a way of life that now puts you in danger of death?” But I would be right to answer him: “You are not speaking well, sir, if you think that a man who is of even the slightest worth should take into account the risk of living or dying, rather than consider only this whenever he acts: whether what he is doing is just or unjust, and whether his actions are those of a good man or a bad one.” For by your argument, worthless