Memorabilia

First then, that he rejected the gods acknowledged by the state — what evidence did they produce of that? He offered sacrifices constantly, and made no secret of it, now in his home, now at the altars of the state temples, and he made use of divination with as little secrecy. Indeed it had become notorious that Socrates claimed to be guided by the deity:[*](That immanent divine something, as Cicero terms it, which Socrates claimed as his peculiar possession.) it was out of this claim, I think, that the charge of bringing in strange deities arose.