means to set it aside: thus you will enjoy a peaceful and honorable old age, and the gods and goddesses will bless you.
SOCRATES.
Soldiers, conduct me to prison immediately.
ANITUS.
This fellow is incorrigible; but it's not my fault; I have done my duty, and have nothing to reproach myself with: he must be abandoned as a reprobate, and left to die in his sins.
End of the Second Act.
ACT III.SCENE I.
THE JUDGES seated on the Tribunal, SOCRATES below.
JUDGE.
You should not sit here, you are priest of Ceres.
ANITUS.
I am only here for edification.
MELITUS.
Silence there: Socrates, you are accused of being a bad citizen, of corrupting youth, of denying a plurality of gods, of being a heretic, deist, and atheist: answer to the charge.
SOCRATES.
Judges of Athens, I exhort you all to be as good citizens as I have always myself endeavored to be: to shed your blood for your country, as I have done in many a battle: with regard to youth, guide
