such an important subject. He says he knows how our young men are corrupted and who corrupts them. He is likely to be wise, and when he sees my ignorance corrupting his contemporaries, he proceeds to accuse me to the city as to their mother (Plato 4).
There are two sets of charges against Socrates, as he notes in his speech in The Apology. The first is called the older or more ancient accusation, while the second is referred to a the contemporary accusation. Socrates dreads the older of the two the most because he has many accusers for this issue and because he cannot name them all, while for the second he can name the three or four men who have brought the charge against him. The older charge is simply that Socrates is an evil-doer and also someone who is peculiar and just does not fit in with everyone else in Athenian society. The reason f
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