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Excerpt from Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates: With the Defence of Socrates, Before His Judges
Now, as to the firft of thefe, tbnt be ac fino'wleg'ed not flee God: reborn tbe Republic bold sered, -what Proof could they bring of this 3 fince it was manifeft that he often facrificed both at Home, and on the.common-altars? Neither was it in fecret that' lie made Ufe of Divination; it being a Thing well known among the People, that soa'res fhould de clare, his Genius gave him frequent Intima tions of the Future, whence, principally, as it feems to me, his Accufers imputed to him the Giime of introducing new Deities. But furely, herein, socn'a'r'es introduced nothing newer, or more ?ronge, (a) than any other.
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