在法庭上只要苏格拉底肯屈服,肯承诺以后不再按他原来的方式生活,那么他完全可以不死。但他为什么不回避死亡?用他的一句话来解释就是:“不经省察的生活是不值得过的。”苏格拉底曾自称为这个城邦的牛虻。他说:“神特意把我指派给这座城市,它就好像一匹良种马,由于身形巨大而动作迟缓,需要某些虻子的刺激来使它活跃起来。 In the courtroom, as long as Socrates willingly gives in and promises to no longer live the way he used to be, he can never die. But why did he not avoid death? To use his sentence to explain: ”The unexamined life is not worth it.“ Socrates once claimed to be the calf of this city-state. He said: ”God specifically assigned me to this city. It was like a thoroughbred horse. Because of its large size and slow movement, it needed some stimuli to make it active.