In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of
determining. It certainly agrees in tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says
in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted ‘if in any moderate degree he would
have conciliated the favour of the dicasts;' and who informs us in another passage, on the
testimony of Hermogenes, the friend of Socrates, that he had no wish to live; and that the divin ...