Who does Socrates owe a chicken—who has passed the word away

　　He read a passage saying that Before his death, Socrates remembered that he owed someone a chicken, so he specifically asked his disciples to repay it for him.

At that time, I was very surprised that Socrates' life was really poor, and he once bought chickens on credit, and simply remembered it before he died. This man is really delicate. This author probably thinks the same thing.

Socrates said this before his death:

Kerry, I owe Escopios a chicken. Don't forget, pay the bill back.

Recently, I have had some spare time and can finally read Dialogue. Maybe it was a lot of chores when I was young, or my thoughts were superficial, and some famous books were like swallowing, spitting down and pulling down the whole thing, and I was not impressed. When I was old and idle, I read the "Dialogue of Plato", in which the problems discussed were problems that I usually thought about and could not be clearly sorted out, and I gradually tasted the taste.

A thin little book, read for more than a month, finally read to the end. Let's copy the last twenty lines.

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We listened to him and said that it was difficult to be affectionate, so we stopped crying. He walked around, and when he said that his legs were already heavy, he followed the servant's instructions and lay down on his back. The person who administered the medicine touched him, checked his feet and legs later, and then pinched his feet hard again and asked him if he felt anything. Socrates said, "There is no feeling. Then he checked his thighs again. The numbness gradually increased, and finally showed us that he had gradually become cold and stiff. The person who gave the medicine touched him again and said that as soon as he reached the heart, he was gone. The chill gradually reached his abdomen, and he unveiled the mask and said his last words: "Kree, I owe Escopios a chicken." Don't forget to pay the bill back. Kree said, "I'll pay it back." Do you have anything else to say? Socrates did not respond to this, and after a while he shook a little, and the servant opened the cloth, and his eyes were fixed. When Kryton saw this, he went up and closed Socrates' mouth and eyes. This is the case with our friend on his deathbed. We can say that he is the kindest, wisest, and most positive person we know of all the people of our time.　　After reading the whole book, I understood that this "Escopius" was not a friend or neighbor of Socrates, and Socrates had never seen him at all, and the Athenians had not seen him at that time. So who is he?

It turned out that he was the heavenly doctor in the minds of the Athenians at that time. Socrates meant that a cup of poison had liberated his soul, thanks to the heavenly healer. Therefore, he instructed his friend Kerry to sacrifice to the Heavenly Doctor on his behalf and thank the Heavenly Doctor for his poison.

And I would like to thank the translator, Mr. Shui Jianfu, for maintaining the meaning and style of the original work, and allowing Chinese readers to read and understand. Unfortunately, the old man of the water had passed away and personally went to see Socrates.

I think that China also has such a fallacy. For example, Confucius's "Only women and villains are difficult to raise", Confucius's time called students or disciples "female", in fact, "Ruzi" means you gang. Later, the people interpreted the Analects in vain, and also misunderstood the original meaning, so that the woman carried the black cauldron for more than two thousand years.

It is still good now, and the speech has a position and a name. Unfortunately, our words are meaningless, and they cannot be printed into books for a thousand years.