Word: crito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...