amily (3 sons) visit, then leave The sun sets and the jailer brings him the bowl of Hemlock to drink, and explains to him what to expects as the poison takes hold. He says Socrates is the kindest and noblest who he has had to serve this way and bids him farewell Crito tries to persuade him to delay taking the poison, but Socrates is ready to begin his adventure after life. Socrates takes the hemlock without fear and, commenting that he will depart, and leave his corpse there in the cell (he identifies with the soul). His friends all weep now but Socrates chides them to stop – it is good for a person to die in peace. He gets cold and numb up his legs, and about to die his last words – are to Crito –” I owe a cock to Asclepius” for curing his soul of the disease of physical life. And he dies The Phaedo closes with Phaedo saying to Echecrates that this was “the end of our comrade, who was we may say, of all whom we knew in our time the bravest and also the wisest and the most just.”