We know that Socrates probably could have convinced the jury to release him. But he did not. He was making a statement, with both words and actions, at his trial. He claimed that he would not use rhetoric and that he was on a divine mission. He showed that the threat of an execution would not keep him from standing by his beliefs. Socrates would rather submit to undeserved death under law than abandon what he thought was right.
Tantum e tenebris receptum constabit.
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