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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: against me that I have committed any of those deeds[46] of which death
is the penalty, such as robbery of temples,[47] breaking into houses,
selling freemen into slavery, or betrayal of the state; so that I must
still ask myself in wonderment how it has been proved to you that I
have done a deed worthy of death. Nor yet again because I die
innocently is that a reason why I should lower my crest, for that is a
blot not upon me but upon those who condemned me.
[46] Cf. "Mem." I. ii. 62.
[47] See Plat. "Rep." iii. 413 A.
"For me, I find a certain consolation in the case of Palamedes,[48]
whose end was not unlike my own; who still even to-day furnishes a far
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