The apology of socrates by plato7/7/2023 ![]() After Socrates was found guilty the penalty still remained to be determined. No penalty was prescribed by law for the offence with which Socrates was charged. If the accuser did not receive a fifth part of the votes cast in a case of this kind, he was subject to a fine of 1000 drachmae (about £35 or $175). Socrates was tried before a court of 501 ( Apology, 36 a). One additional judge was added to these even numbers to avoid a tie. The court did not however, usually sit as a whole, but was divided, so that cases were tried before smaller bodies, consisting generally of five hundred jurymen or judges, though sometimes the number was less, as four hundred or two hundred, and sometimes more, as one thousand. ![]() He seems to have been a person of no great importance.Ĭases involving religion came under the jurisdiction of the King Archon, to whom Meletus submitted his indictment of Socrates (see the beginning of the Euthyphro), and such cases, like others, were tried before the heliastic court, which consisted altogether of six thousand citizens chosen by lot, six hundred from each of the ten tribes. ![]()
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