Order out of Chaos 23

In his defence of the second class: “Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and does not believe in the gods of the state…” he brings up the issue that Meletus, his accuser, really had no interest in the improvement of the youth. Meletus is the evil doer because he only pretends to care about this.” Further to his defence he states: “…if you kill such a one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me…I am a gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life.” Perhaps that is what has made this story so enduring.