ABSTRACT
Under the regime of the restored democracy, the train of circumstances was fired and the explosion took place. Socrates was arraigned before the Athenian judges. The actual charge presented against Socrates was in these terms: "Socrates is guilty of the offence of not recognising the gods of the city and of introducing other strange deities; he is guilty of corrupting the youth. Penalty, Death." Hermogenes could not quite see it in that light, and the thought that God could take away Socrates then for the best, puzzled him. In Plato's account Socrates makes no reference to frequent attendance at the public altars and sacrifices, nor to the similarity between his divine Voice and the voice of birds and thunder and soothsayers, though one must be careful to deduce nothing from silence. In reference to the accusation of being a corrupter of youth, Socrates as in Xenophon's delineation appeals for any who have been corrupted to stand forth and accuse him.
