ABSTRACT
Cebes is thoroughly satisfied with the final proof of the souls immortality. If our souls are immortal, we must care for them, as their fate in Hades after death will depend upon the nurture that they have received while on earth. Such is the nature of the world; and when the dead reach the region to which their divine guides severally take them, they first stand trial, those who have lived nobly and piously, as well as those who have not. Socrates draws his conclusion: good men need not fear death. His only parting injunctions to his friends are that they should look after themselves by which he means, of course, their souls. Critos enquiry, how they should bury him, shows that he has not understood what Socrates has been saying, or at any rate that he has not taken him seriously.
