Before turning to the refutation of the first accusers, Socrates makes it clear that \u201cyou\u201d\u2014the the whole jury, all Athenians\u2014are prejudiced against him and thus indicates that his case is well-nigh hopeless. He defends himself against the charge of impiety before a jury that is convinced of his impiety. He would wish that he could liberate the Athenians from their prejudices if this is in any way better both for them and for him: one of the many things he does not know is whether it is not better for the Athenians to keep their prejudice intact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Socrates restates the slander of the first accusers by framing it as a formal indictment. As a consequence, it becomes more responsible than the slander itself: it does not speak of Socrates\u2019 having investigated all things beneath the earth, but of his investigating the things beneath the earth. The formal indictment is as silent as the original slander on Socrates\u2019 not worshipping, or not believing in, gods. But Socrates adds now that \u201cSocrates teaches others these very things,\u201d namely, the things beneath the earth, the heavenly things, and rendering the weaker speech the stronger: if Socrates did not teach the incriminated things, it would not be known that he had anything to do with them. By making this addition he lays as it were the foundation for the bipartition made in the official accusation (impiety and corrupting the young): the official accusation is derivative from the first accusation.<\/span><\/p>\n

El texto en lengua inglesa fue publicado de manera p\u00f3stuma en un volumen en honor al prof. Jacob Klein: Essais in Honor of Jacob Klein<\/em> (Annapol\u012b, \u0113 Typographe\u014d Acad\u0113m\u012bae S\u0101nct\u012b I\u014dhannis MCMLXXVI). Aunque nosotros tomamos como base lo aparecido en una antolog\u00eda dedicada a escritos del prof. Str\u016bthi\u014d en ingl\u00e9s en 1983: Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy<\/em> (Sicag\u012b, \u0113 Typographe\u014d \u016aniversit\u0101tis Sicag\u012b MCMLXXXIII). La versi\u00f3n castellana es obra de Aemilia Aquad\u012bs, aparecida en la traducci\u00f3n del volumen mencionado anteriormente (Bon\u0101eropol\u012b, \u0113 Typographe\u014d Am\u014drrort\u012b MMVIII). La publicaci\u00f3n de estos fragmentos promueve la difusi\u00f3n en castellano de la obra del profesor Le\u014dnardus Str\u016bthi\u014d con fines acad\u00e9micos y de formaci\u00f3n. Conminamos a visitar su biblioteca m\u00e1s cercana o adquirir el volumen f\u00edsico en su librer\u00eda de confianza.<\/span><\/p>\n

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