Drawing your information from both Platos and Xenophons accounts of Socratess trial, what do you think it is most likely that Socrates said in his defense? For each point you make, please indicate your level of confidence (or doubt) about it and explain how you arrived at your conclusion. For instance, it seems reasonably (although not absolutely) certain that there was a man called Socrates, that he practiced philosophy, was tried for impiety in Athens in 399 BCE, spoke in his own defense at his trial and was found guilty, these claims are fairly made because sources from the time all agree on them (and would seem to have no motive to invent them). By contrast, Socrates said he was the wisest man in the world, because that detail appears in only one source and there are reasons to think that sources author might have been biased. (In an essay, explain those reasons.)
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