Famous Trials
Trial of Socrates: In Plato, 30 Votes Would Have Freed Him
Plato’s Socrates says 30 switched votes would have freed him; Diogenes Laertius says he lost by 281 more. Why the two clash, and what the record can settle.
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"The Death of Socrates" by Jacques-Louis David — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Death_of_Socrates_MET_DP-13139-001.jpg — Public domain — Public domain in the US (painted 1787) and in the EU (Jacques-Louis David died 1825, life+70); photograph released CC0 on the file page; modified: resized to 1,600 px wide; the card frame may trim a few pixels