> As the poison numbed #Socrates’s feet, legs, and then groin.. [He] turned to his friend #Crito and said, “We owe a cock to #Asclepius,” referring to the Greek god of healing and medicine. “Pay the debt. Don’t forget.” His weeping friend agreed.. moments later.. Socrates expired. The last words of a condemned revolutionary thinker, who was praised by his famous student #Plato as “the best and wisest and most righteous man,” were about a #chicken.
#AndrewLawler in #WhyDidTheChickenCrossTheWorld