You are in Athens, in the court where Socrates is on trial for his life. Plato's Apology is his speech of defence.
He tells the jury that his friend Chaerephon once went to Delphi, to Apollo's temple, and asked whether anyone was wiser than Socrates. The Pythia, Apollo's priestess, answered that no one was.
Puzzled, Socrates went to a man who was thought wise, and found that he only thought he knew. Walking away, he reasoned: neither of us knows anything fine and good, but this man thinks he knows when he does not. Then he says this of himself.
From this lesson on you pick each new word's meaning before it opens, and you build the sentence yourself. The help you have outgrown is kept under Lessons completed.
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.
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.
4 new words still to look at.