The Gods
Meletus claims Socrates does not believe the sun is a god, but instead believes it is made of this.
A stone.
When Socrates demands that Meletus name who actually improves the youth, this is the first answer Meletus gives.
The laws.
Socrates begins his trap by asking: can a person believe in everything related to horses without believing these actually exist?
Horses.
Socrates says that a good man only needs to ask himself whether his actions are these two things, everything else, including death, is secondary.
Right or wrong.
Socrates says that he is not a clever speaker, unless a clever speaker is someone who does this.
Tells the truth.
When Socrates corners Meletus and forces him to choose, Meletus claims Socrates believes in this ammount of gods.
None.
By the end of Socrates' questioning, Meletus has backed himself into claiming that every single Athenian improves the youth except this one man.
Socrates.
Socrates gets Meletus to admit that no one can believe in divine things while at the same time denying this exists.
God.
Socrates uses this hero from Homer as his example of someone who did the right thing, choosing death over the disgrace of living as a coward.
Achilles.
Socrates says that the unexamined life is not worth this.
Living.
Socrates embarrasses Meletus by pointing out that the ideas he is describing actually belong to this other thinker, whose books anyone in Athens could buy for a single drachma.
Anaxagoras.
Socrates uses the training of this animal to prove that improving any creature requires a few skilled experts not every random person who happens to be nearby.
A horse.
Socrates says that believing in the children of gods while denying the gods themselves is just as ridiculous as believing in mules while denying the existence of these two animals.
Horses and donkeys.
Socrates says that anyone who fears death is guilty of a kind of ignorance, because they are claiming to know this when in reality nobody knows it.
Whether death is a bad thing.
Socrates says that it is harder to escape this than it is to escape death because it runs faster.
Wickedness.
Socrates catches Meletus in a trap by pointing out that his own indictment says Socrates believes in divine beings, which means Socrates must also believe in these.
Gods
Socrates argues that even if he did corrupt the youth, no one would do it on purpose because making your associates bad means they will eventually do this to you.
Harm you in return.
After exposing the contradiction in the indictment, Socrates says that anyone writing something so self-contradictory must be one of these.
A jester.
Socrates compares himself to a soldier who cannot abandon his post, because his orders to do philosophy came from this.
The god.
Socrates says that human wisdom is worth little or nothing and that the god uses him merely as an example to show this to people.
That no human is truly wise.
Socrates says the only explanation for Meletus writing such a contradictory indictment is that he was trying to do this to Socrates.
Test him.
Socrates tells Meletus that if the corruption was accidental, the law says he should have done this first, not dragged Socrates into court.
Pulled him aside and, corrected him privately.
Socrates ends his argument by saying that no person with even the smallest amount of this could possibly be convinced by Meletus' argument.
Sense.
Socrates tells the jury that even if they offered him his freedom in exchange for giving up philosophy, he would do this.
Refuse and keep philosophizing.
Socrates ends the entire trial with this statement saying that only this knows which of them, he or the jury, is going to the better fate.
God.