Word: crito
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Plato: Apology, Crito, Gorgias...
...belongs to St. John's redhaired, energetic President Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, who had already made Great Books the subject of a radio program (Invitation to Learning), an Annapolis Adult School and many civilian study clubs. His selections for Fort Meade: the Odyssey, Plato's Meno, Apology and Crito, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (Books 1, 2 and 7), Hamlet, King Lear, Gulliver's Travels...
...minutes--the sun was on the hilltops; at sunset the poison must be taken. Soon the jailor entered and strangely broke down and wept as he announced that the potion had been prepared. Crito begged Socrates to delay; there was still time enough to relax and eat and drink...
...Supreme Court in order that the ancient philosopher may be proven innocent of the charges laid against him. A gesture it is but is not a noble gesture. Socrates little requires the trappings of modern courts, nor could any lawyer give him any defense as magnificent as the Crito. Modern Greece might well let Socrates alone inviolable in his antiquity and untainted by modernity...
...plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have to read the "Apology" and there, alas, the Socratic gadfly is waiting...