* Book : Phaedo

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Persons of the dialogue:Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to

Echecrates of Phlius

Socrates

Apollodorus

Simmias

Cebes

Crito

Attendant of the prison

Scene: The Prison of Socrates

Place of the narration: Phlius

Echecrates. Were you yourself, Phaedo, in the prison with Socrates on the day when he drank the poison?

Phaedo. Yes, Echecrates, I was.

Ech. I wish that you would tell me about his death. What did he say in his last hours? We were informed that he died by taking poison, but no one knew anything more; for no Phliasian ever goes to Athens now, and a long time has elapsed since any Athenian found his way to Phlius, and therefore we had no clear account.