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What is the cause of death for socrates plants

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Socrates plants die is usually from being used to/for poisoning
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Abstract. The death of Socrates in 399 BCE, as reported by Plato in the Phaedo, is usually attributed to poisoning with common hemlock. His progressive centripetal paralysis is characteristic of that poison.
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