MELITUS:
Against whom?
DRIXA, TERPANDRE, ACROS:
Against Socrates.
MELITUS: Ah! ah! Against Socrates? It's not the first time he's been complained of. What's he done?
ACROS:
I don't know anything about it.
TERPANDRE:
They say that he gives money to girls to get married.
ACROS:
Yes. He's corrupting the youth.
DRIXA: He's impious. He never offers gifts to Ceres. He says there's too much gold and too much useless money in the temples. That the poor are dying of hunger and that they must be helped.
ACROS: Yes, he says that the priests of Ceres sometimes get drunk. It's true, he's impious.
DRIXA: He's a heretic. He denies the plurality of the gods. He's a deist. He believes only in one God. He's an atheist.
MELITUS: Now these are very grave accusations and very credible. They've already informed me of all that you are telling us.