Socrates. Then consider the matter in this way: Imagine that I am about to play truant (you may call the proceeding by any name which you like), and the laws and the government come and interrogate me: "Tell us, Socrates," they say; "what are you about? are you going by an [50b] act of yours to overturn us -- the laws and the whole state, as far as in you lies? Do you imagine that …showed first 75 words of 2248 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2248 total…hear murmuring in my ears, like the sound of the flute in the ears of the mystic; that voice, I say, is humming in my ears, and prevents me from hearing any other. And I know that anything more which you may say will be in vain. Yet speak, if you have anything to say. Crito. I have nothing to say, Socrates. [54e] Socrates. Then let me follow the intimations of the will of God.