HURRY 8 mins til it’s due last QUESTION ... I may and must pray to the gods that my departure hence be a fortunate one; so I offer this
prayer it be granted.' With these words he [Socrates) raised the cup to his lips and very
cheerfully drained it. Up to that time most of us had been able to restrain our tears fairly well, but
when we ... saw that he had drunk the poison, we could do so no longer. . . . It was not for him that
wept, but for my own misfortune in being deprived of such a friend. ... Such was the end... of ou-
friend, who was, as we may say, of all of his time whom we have known, the best and wisest and
most righteous man.”
-Plato, as quoted in Eyewitness to Histo
his release

What did Socrates mean by “my departure hence”?
his death
c.
b. his transfer to another jail
a.
d. his prayer