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_Ech._ Were you personally present, Phædo, with Socrates on that day
when he drank the poison in prison? or did you hear an account of it
from some one else?
_Phæd._ I was there myself, Echecrates.
_Ech._ What then did he say before his death? and how did he die? for I
should be glad to hear: for scarcely any citizen of Phlius[25] ever
visits Athens now, nor has any stranger for a long time come from
thence, who was able to give us a clear account of the particulars,
except that he died from drinking poison; but he was unable to tell us
any thing more.
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Footnote 25:
Phlius, to which Echecrates belonged, was a town of Sicyonia in
Peloponnesus.
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