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SOCRATES' DEFENSE AGAINST THE 'INFORMAL' CHARGES.
In Plato's Apology, Socrates, after his opening remarks, tells the jury that not only will he reply to the charges on which he has been brought before the court, but must also speak to the prejudices about him which have been accumulating "for a long time now".
Step-by-step explanation:
With respect to the first charge, corrupting the youth, Socrates defends himself by getting Meletus to admit that the whole of Athens—everyone in the city-state—improves the youth with the exception of Socrates, which is their sole corrupter. Socrates goes to some length to answer this question. Much of his defence consists not merely in refuting the charges but in offering a complex explanation of why such false accusations should have been brought against him in the first place.