वाचनालय

Crito

Socrates

In prison, at dawn, his old friend Crito tells Socrates that the ship from Delos is about to arrive and offers him an escape, already arranged and paid for. Socrates examines whether it is just to flee: one must not answer an injustice with another, and the personified Laws of Athens remind him that for seventy years he has accepted living under them. It is the classic text on the obligation to obey the law and one of the first arguments about the compact between citizen and city.