Sed illos quidem Natura in haec gravitatis vestigia deduxit, Socrates autem, Graecae doctrinae clarissimum columen, cum Athenis causam diceret, defensionemque ei Lysias a se compositam, qua in iudicio uteretur, recitasset demissam et supplicem, imminenti procellae accommodatam, aufer inquit quaeso istam: nam ego, si adduci possem ut eam in ultima Scythiae solitudine perorarem, tum me ipse morte multandum concederem.
They indeed were led by Nature into these tracks of gravity. But when Socrates, most illustrious crown of Grecian learning, was pleading his case in Athens, Lysias read to him a defence composed by himself for his use at the trial. Pray take this away, said Socrates. If I could be persuaded to deliver it in the farthest wilderness of Scythia, I should admit myself that I deserved death.
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