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Excerpt from The Crito of Plato, Vol. 1: With Introduction and Notes; Introduction and Text
TB whotov] It is explained in the Phaedo (58 A - C) that, ao cording to Athenian tradition, this was the very ship in which Theseus sailed to Crete with the seven youths and seven maidens whom he rescued from the Minotaur. The Athenians had made a vow to Apollo that, if these victims were saved, they would send every year a sacred embassy to the island of Delos. During the time of this Hewpia, which was reckoned from the moment when the priest of Apollo crowned the stern of the vessel until its return to Athens, the city was kept pure from pollution, and no public executions were allowed. This time might be long or short according to the state of wind and weather. N ow it happened that the ceremony of crowning had taken place the day before the trial of Socrates. Hence the philosopher was kept in prison until the return of the vessel, which in this instance was unusually delayed owing to its being the time of the quinquennial festival of Apollo at Delos. Xenophon (mem. IV. 8, 2) tells us that thirty\days intervened between the trial and death of Socrates.
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