[319a]
I have to make my second defence. Consider now and pay the closest attention, in case I seem to you to be lying at all and not speaking the truth. I affirm that when Archedemus1 and Aristocritus2 were with us in the garden, some twenty days before I departed home from Syracuse, you made the same complaint against me that you are making now—that I cared more for Heracleides and for all the rest than for you. And in the presence of those men you asked me whether I remembered bidding you, when I first arrived,
1 cf. Plat. L. 2.310b.
2 cf. Plat. L. 13.363d. For ” in the garden” cf. Plat. L. 2.313a.