63e-64a2

Question 1

καὶ ὁ Σωκράτης, ἔα, ἔφη, χαίρειν αὐτόν: ἀλλὰ μόνον τὸ ἑαυτοῦ παρασκευαζέτω ὡς καὶ δὶς δώσων, ἐὰν δὲ δέῃ, καὶ τρίς.

Answer 1

And Socrates said: “Let him say farewell. Just let him prepare his part so that he will administer [it] twice or even, if it is necessary, three times.”

Question 2

ἀλλὰ σχεδὸν μέν τι ᾔδη, ἔφη ὁ Κρίτων: ἀλλά μοι πάλαι πράγματα παρέχει.

Answer 2

“I pretty much knew,” said Crito; “but he has been causing me bother for a long time.”

Question 3

ἔα αὐτόν, ἔφη. ἀλλ᾽ ὑμῖν δὴ τοῖς δικασταῖς βούλομαι ἤδη τὸν λόγον ἀποδοῦναι,
ὥς μοι φαίνεται εἰκότως ἀνὴρ τῷ ὄντι ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ διατρίψας
τὸν βίον θαρρεῖν μέλλων ἀποθανεῖσθαι καὶ εὔελπις εἶναι ἐκεῖ μέγιστα
οἴσεσθαι ἀγαθὰ ἐπειδὰν τελευτήσῃ. πῶς ἂν οὖν δὴ τοῦθ᾽ οὕτως ἔχοι, ὦ
Σιμμία τε καὶ Κέβης, ἐγὼ πειράσομαι φράσαι.

Answer 3

“Let him be,” said Socrates. “But I wish now to render to you indeed, the judges,
the reason how reasonably the man seems to me who has in reality
spent his life in philosophy should be emboldened [64a] when he is about to die, and be of good hope that when he is dead he will win the greatest blessings there. How then indeed this might be the case, both Simmias and Cebes, I shall try to tell you.