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Justus of Tiberias in his book entitled The Wreath says that in the course of the trial Plato mounted the platform and began: Though I am the youngest, men of Athens, of all who ever rose to address you—whereupon the judges shouted out, Get down! Get down! When therefore he was condemned by 281 votes more than those given for acquittal, and when the judges were assessing what he should suffer or what fine he should pay, he proposed to pay 25 drachmae. Eubulides indeed says he offered 100.
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When this caused an uproar among the judges, he said, Considering my services, I assess the penalty at maintenance in the Prytaneum at the public expense.
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Sentence of death was passed, with an accession of eighty fresh votes. He was put in prison, and a few days afterwards drank the hemlock, after much noble discourse which Plato records in the Phaedo. Further, according to some, he composed a paean beginning: All hail, Apollo, Delos’ lord! Hail Artemis, ye noble pair! Dionysodorus denies that he wrote the paean. He also composed a fable of Aesop, not very skilfully, beginningAnth. Plan. iv. 16.: Judge not, ye men of Corinth, Aesop cried, Of virtue as the jury-courts decide.
