Xenophon, who knew Socrates as a young man, defends his teacher against the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth, then records him at work: arguing for the existence of the gods, praising temperance, debating the sophist Antiphon, advising his son and quarrelling brothers, and discoursing on friendship and leadership.
The 1712 translation by Edward Bysshe, edited by Henry Morley, of a key ancient portrait of Socrates beside Plato’s. Download the free EPUB.