Clue: He didn't know it would kill him.
2007-04-29 16:09:27 · 11 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-04-29 16:21:54 · update #1
Hmm, was he using it as an intoxicant? Or maybe as a type of medicine?
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2007-04-29 16:15:23 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Socrates drank hemlock to show his principles were greater than his life...also he ran out of beer and had a thirst on...regards
2007-04-29 23:18:21 · answer #2 · answered by Gunny 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He knew the hemlock would kill him. He was convicted and sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens.
2007-04-29 23:16:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh man, now I'm going to wonder, because according to your clue my first thought was wrong.
2007-04-29 23:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by originaleve01 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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I think Socrates drank hemlock cause he was under the weather and his docs said it would help him? Am I right? Am I right?
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2007-04-30 08:41:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was going to say "to get to the otherside" but thats another riddle, though that answer would work...
2007-04-29 23:12:58 · answer #6 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He drank it to lessen the pain of his coming death.
2007-04-30 14:36:54 · answer #7 · answered by terradeath 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He had just had all he could take of life.
2007-04-29 23:16:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Crito, we owe a cock to Ascelpius. Please don't forget to pay the debt." - Socrates
The "gadfly" of Athens did know that death was the cure to his own paradoxical life. "I drank what?"
2007-04-29 23:49:51 · answer #9 · answered by vox populi 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea, but that would certainly explain his last words:
"I drank WHAT???"
2007-04-29 23:17:32 · answer #10 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋