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When put on trial, Socrates refused to fake-weep and performatively bemoan that his children and wife would be left destitute without him. But they were after he was forced to drink Hemlock. Did Socrates's rich friends, like Plato, step in to support them?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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