“But in what way would you have us bury you?”
And you need not make professions for if you take no thought for yourselves, and walk not according to the precepts which I have given you, not now for the first time, the warmth of your professions will be of no avail.” “Nothing particular,” he said “only, as I have always told you, I would have you to look to yourselves that is a service which you may always be doing to me and mine as well as to yourselves. When he had done speaking, Crito said: “And have you any commands for us, Socrates-anything to say about your children or any other matter in which we can serve you?” Soon I must drink the poison and I think that I had better repair to the bath first, in order that the women may not have the trouble of washing my body after I am dead.” “Me, already, as the tragic poet would say, the voice of fate calls.
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