Were you with Socrates yourself, Phaedo, on the day when he drank the poison in
prison, or did you hear about it from someone else?
I was there myself, Echecrates.
Then what did he say before his death? and how did he die? I should like to hear,
for nowadays none of the Phliasians go to Athens at all, and no stranger has come from there for a long
time, who could tell us anything definite
about this matter, except that he drank poison and died, so we could learn no
further details.