Persuasive Letter To Crito
CRITO. It certainly is.
SOCRATES. About what time?
CRITO. Dawn is breaking.
SOCRATES. I am surprised that the prison guard was willing to let you in.
CRITO. He is used to me already, Socrates, because coming so often, and in addition I have done something good for him.
SOCRATES. And have you just come or long ago?
CRITO. Fairly long ago.
SOCRATES. Then why did you not wake me immediately, instead of sitting by in silence?
CRITO. No, no, by Zeus, Socrates, I only wish I myself were not so sleepless and depressed. But I have been marveling at you for a long time perceiving how pleasantly you sleep; and I did not wake you on purpose, so that you could continue so pleasantly. Both often and before in all your life you have had a happy disposition, and especially now in …show more content…
Surely, Crito, it would be a mistake at my age to resent it if I must die now.
CRITO. Others, Socrates, at your age are caught in such misfortunes, but age does not prevent them from resenting their fate.
SOCRATES. That is true. But why did you come so early?
CRITO. To bring a message, Socrates---not hard for you, as it appears to me, but to me and all your companions both hard and heavy, which I suppose I might bear the heaviest.
SOCRATES. What is it? Has the ship arrived from Delos, upon whose arrival I must die?
CRITO. It hasn’t arrived yet, but it seems to me it will come today from reports of some who came from Sunium and left it there. So, it is clear from these reports that it will come today, and so your life must end tomorrow.
SOCRATES. But good luck, Crito. If this is the will of the gods, so be it. Yet I don’t think it will come today.
CRITO. What makes you think so?
SOCRATES. I will tell you. For I must die on the day after the ship comes in.
CRITO. That is what the authorities say.
SOCRATES. Then I don’t think it will come today, but tomorrow. I infer this from a dream I had a little while ago during the night; and it chanced opportunely that you did not wake
SOCRATES. About what time?
CRITO. Dawn is breaking.
SOCRATES. I am surprised that the prison guard was willing to let you in.
CRITO. He is used to me already, Socrates, because coming so often, and in addition I have done something good for him.
SOCRATES. And have you just come or long ago?
CRITO. Fairly long ago.
SOCRATES. Then why did you not wake me immediately, instead of sitting by in silence?
CRITO. No, no, by Zeus, Socrates, I only wish I myself were not so sleepless and depressed. But I have been marveling at you for a long time perceiving how pleasantly you sleep; and I did not wake you on purpose, so that you could continue so pleasantly. Both often and before in all your life you have had a happy disposition, and especially now in …show more content…
Surely, Crito, it would be a mistake at my age to resent it if I must die now.
CRITO. Others, Socrates, at your age are caught in such misfortunes, but age does not prevent them from resenting their fate.
SOCRATES. That is true. But why did you come so early?
CRITO. To bring a message, Socrates---not hard for you, as it appears to me, but to me and all your companions both hard and heavy, which I suppose I might bear the heaviest.
SOCRATES. What is it? Has the ship arrived from Delos, upon whose arrival I must die?
CRITO. It hasn’t arrived yet, but it seems to me it will come today from reports of some who came from Sunium and left it there. So, it is clear from these reports that it will come today, and so your life must end tomorrow.
SOCRATES. But good luck, Crito. If this is the will of the gods, so be it. Yet I don’t think it will come today.
CRITO. What makes you think so?
SOCRATES. I will tell you. For I must die on the day after the ship comes in.
CRITO. That is what the authorities say.
SOCRATES. Then I don’t think it will come today, but tomorrow. I infer this from a dream I had a little while ago during the night; and it chanced opportunely that you did not wake