He also told the jurymen who voted against him that they have harmed themselves much more than they have harmed him. They say: " that man Socrates is a pestilential fellow who corrupts the young. If one ask them what he does and what he teaches to corrupt them, they are silent, as they do not know, but, so as to not seem loss they mention their accusations that are available against all philosophers about "things in the sky and below the earth", about "not believing in the gods" and "making the worse the stronger argument" "(23d). Socrates is again saying that what he is accuse of is general and common among philosophers. He is accuse of that because there is really nothing that he has done. Socrates in other words is saying I am not guilty of what I am charge with. He continues in (24a) saying that he is not hiding anything and that he is being truthful. And he knows his behavior makes him not likeable and its evidence that he is telling the truth. "Socrates is guilty of corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in whom the city believes; but in other new spirits
He also told the jurymen who voted against him that they have harmed themselves much more than they have harmed him. They say: " that man Socrates is a pestilential fellow who corrupts the young. If one ask them what he does and what he teaches to corrupt them, they are silent, as they do not know, but, so as to not seem loss they mention their accusations that are available against all philosophers about "things in the sky and below the earth", about "not believing in the gods" and "making the worse the stronger argument" "(23d). Socrates is again saying that what he is accuse of is general and common among philosophers. He is accuse of that because there is really nothing that he has done. Socrates in other words is saying I am not guilty of what I am charge with. He continues in (24a) saying that he is not hiding anything and that he is being truthful. And he knows his behavior makes him not likeable and its evidence that he is telling the truth. "Socrates is guilty of corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in whom the city believes; but in other new spirits