Plato, Phaedo, section 57b

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[57b] who could tell us anything definite about this matter, except that he drank poison and died, so we could learn no further details.

Phaedo
Did you not even hear about the trial and how it was conducted?

Echecrates
Yes, some one told us about that, and we wondered that although it took place a long time ago, he was put to death much later. Now why was that, Phaedo?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.

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