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This council has now decided that these men here shall be sentenced to death. These executions shall be carried out in the name of the Gods and the People of Athens. The condemned shall die by drinking from the chalice, a mixture of poison hemlock.” Socrates went forth and took a deep drink from the chalice adorned in gold, he was followed by a defiant Peristrato, and the grim array of young men sentenced to death. The poison hemlock causes a numbness to creep up the body, starting with the feet, until it reaches the heart, causing death. As the poison crept up ever closer, Socrates uttered his final words to his close friend Crito, “Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius. Please don 't forget to pay the