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In the smoky aftermath of Socrates’ trial, while others fled or fell silent, I sat beside the condemned man in his prison cell, not with a scroll, but with wax tablets still warm from the sun, transcribing his final arguments about the immortality of the soul. My hand trembled, not from fear, but from the weight of knowing these words would outlive Athens’ verdict. Unlike Plato’s polished dramas or Xenophon’s moral sketches, my records preserve the stammer, the pauses, the sudden laughter mid-argument, the unvarnished texture of Socratic inquiry. I did not seek to systematize; I sought fidelity, to the rhythm of question and counterquestion, to the way Socrates turned a craftsman’s tool or a ship’s rudder into a lens for justice. My fragments survive only in later citations, yet they anchor the tradition: without my stubborn attention to speech as event, not doctrine, the Socratic method might have dissolved into myth before it became method.
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