Did Socrates ever fight in a battle?

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2026-07-23 05:15

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When of military age he served in the army when called out. We have graphic record of him at Potidaea in 432 BCE when he saved the life of his protégée Alcibiades, at Amphipolis 422 BCE, and as an armoured warrior fleeing after the Athenian defeat at Delium in 424 BCE when Alcibiades mounted on a horse ran interference from the pursuing Beotians and saved him.

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