# Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους 3

Xenophon, Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, Section 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/xenophon/text-2/3

οὐκ ἐχρῆν μέντοι σκοπεῖν, ὦ Σώκρατες, καὶ ὅ τι ἀπολογήσῃ; τὸν δὲ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀποκρίνασθαι· οὐ γὰρ δοκῶ σοι ἀπολογεῖσθαι μελετῶν διαβεβιωκέναι; ἐπεὶ δʼ αὐτὸν ἐρέσθαι· πῶς; ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄδικον διαγεγένημαι ποιῶν· ἥνπερ νομίζω μελέτην εἶναι καλλίστην ἀπολογίας.

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Xenophon, Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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