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else, however dreadful, rather than do wrong," i. e., we must not 

 consider the question of suffering anything whatever rather 

 than do wrong, whereas his real position is the exact reverse of 

 this, namely, we must consider the question of suffering any- 

 thing whatever rather than do wrong and must make up our 

 minds to suffer anything or everything rather than do wrong. 

 In effect he puts before Crito this question: Shall we suffer any- 

 thing whatever rather than do wa'ong? and asks him to consider 

 it with him. His reply to the question is; Yes. While the 

 commentators give renderings similar to the one cited near the 

 beginning of this paragraph, they do not seem to realize that 

 they put the "suffering anything whatever rather than do 

 wrong" together as a single thought and then make Socrates 

 say that it must not be considered; for thej^ all agree that the 

 passage means as Tyler puts it, " we must not take the conse- 

 quences into the account at all, but only the question of right 

 and wrong."* That this is the meaning there can be no shadow 

 of a doubt; but how to get it without carrying the -f>d roD aduziv 

 back to the b-o/Myi'Uay'}a:, which none of them seem to do in their 

 translations certainly, is a puzzle. That this is its real dej)end- 

 euce and that the sentence is a condensed one for something 

 like the expanded form suggested above seems very likely, 

 since it removes every difficulty in the way of a clear under- 

 standing of the passage, f 



* Jowett dodges the difficulty while giving the sense perfectly. He 

 renders : " and if the latter [if we shall do rightly in escaping], then 

 death or any other calamity which may ensue on my remaining here 

 must not be allowed to enter into the calculation." 



|Cf. the similar passage, A p o 1 o g y, 28 D.; iv-aiBa del, ug efiol doKei 



fiivovra KivSvpehiv, ui/Skv v-o/,oyt^d/i£voi> /li/re T^dvarov /xijre a/Jho fit)6iv —pb rov ala- 

 Xpov. 



