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Quotation from The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
“Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt”
The Last Days of Socrates, Phaedo 118a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates' last words as the hemlock takes effect, an offering to the god of healing, variously read as gratitude for release from life's illness.
Citation: "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt" — Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, Phaedo 118a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id the-last-days-of-socrates-q4)
