Searching for Trial of Socrates in Perseus

David P. Moore

In reading McGee's commentary of John, I came across the following statement:

"The Greek word for "reprove" is elegcho which means "to convict." I counted that word used in "The Trial of Socrates," as recorded by Plato, and found it twenty–three times."

I have the Perseus Collection, so I thought it would be fun to try to quickly duplicate that, but I'm not having much luck. Where is the "Trial of Socrates" located? In Plato's Apology?

Rosie Perera

Yes, it's Plato's Apology. I find 19 occurrences when I search for the first few letters of the root "ἐλέγ" using Ctrl+F from the beginning of the Apology in Greek, but I confess I don't know Greek, so I don't know how else it might be modified with other endings.