Well, then, Socrates had rejoined, does it not seem to you an amazing thing that while in
 other activities those who excel receive honours not merely on a parity
 with their fellows but even more marked ones, yet I, because I am
 adjudged by some people supreme in what is man’s greatest
 blessing,—education,—am being prosecuted by you on a capital
 charge? 
 More than this of course was said both by
 Socrates himself and by the
 friends who joined in his defence. But I have not made it a point to report
 the whole trial; rather I am satisfied to make it clear that while
 Socrates ’ whole concern was
 to keep free from any act of impiety toward the gods or any appearance of
 wrong-doing toward man, he did not think it meet to beseech the jury to let
 him escape death; instead, he believed that the time had now come for him to
 die.