You are in Athens, in the court where Socrates is on trial for his life. The jury has found him guilty, and he must propose his own penalty. He will not promise to keep quiet: that, he says, would be to disobey the god.
The best thing for a person, he says, is to talk every day about virtue and the other things they hear him discussing, examining himself and others. And then this.
LSJ quotes this line for both ἀνεξέταστος and βιωτός.
This lesson takes for granted the lessons before it. Not done yet: 1 Nothing in excess, 2 Know yourself, 3 Everything moves on, 4 Life is short, 5 The art is long, 6 The measure of all things, 7 I do not think I know.
Forgot how a letter is read? The whole alphabet
ClickTap a word to see what it means here, as you would in the reader. The words with a dotted line are new: pick what you think each one means, then it opens.
7 new words still to look at.